Comment 6 for bug 124166

2009/2/7 Karl Fogel <email address hidden>:

> * 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.

Note that we can support that and still implement the change proposed
here. What I'm asking is whether we want to stop supporting it.

> * 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...)

We are just about to introduce the trimming of comments on the initial
bug page if they go beyond 100.

> 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.

I don't think we'll ever do paging, but instead progressively load
comments, so that you can view them all on the same page, but you
don't have to load them at the same time. If so, then we'll need some
way for the page to know that it must load the relevant comment.