Comment 9 for bug 800361

Re:
>> Get rid of the 'choose' link and the popup window. Let people type in
>> the person field directly, and show a drop down menu of matching
>> names, with the exact match first, and decorated with affiliation,
>> email, and other information.

>I think we also talked about that being too costly performance-wise at this point. We also return to the problem of people often
> requiring quite a bit of information to make a decision about who to select.

Its certainly possible to to type-ahead lookups efficiently. We'd have a few considerations to take into account, like client->server latency, rate limiting the searches, and possibly pregenerating some key situations (like single-letter completions [for single-letter vocabulary entries]).

Anyhow, if we want to do it UI wise, I'd be delighted to help whichever team is working on it achieve a good result doing it. I couldn't estimate the work right now because we're lacking a brief/LEP.