Comment 5 for bug 124166

Thanks, Tom!

* Note that rendering all the comments is something we do anyway if the user visits the bug itself, rather than a particular comment. So it's not like the cost is worse here...

* I frankly don't think there is ever a use for single-comment-view. When would a user want to see just the comment and not have immediate (via scanning/scrolling) access to the context around it? Never, or at least so vanishingly rarely as to not be worth supporting.

* The question of trimming comments or having contination pages ("first 50; next 50; etc") is really independent of this issue. It's a general bug tracker interface decision; if we were to implement it, then we'd use it both when visiting the whole bug, and when jumping to a particular comment in the middle of a bug.

(Or do we currently implement continuation pages? I don't think I've ever visited a bug long enough to see that happen...)

Of course, we'd ideally always place the target comment in the middle of the shown set of comments. IOW, if someone jumps to "#comment-51", we still want to show that comment in the middle of its context, comments 25 through 75, rather than showing 51 at the top of the screen and going down to 100.