100088 - Javascript on show_bug page.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227611

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

It would be really nice if when you change the product on the show_bug page, the
product-specific fields automatically got updated as they do on the query page. 
This would avoid the intermediate page if you have Javascript on.

The JS should be external so it can be cached.  If it reuses the JS used for
query we shouldn't need to make that much bigger, and could cache it for both
pages.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

is there a way for Javascript to load an external library on the fly?  i.e.
without the browser doing it right when the page loads?  Since the Javascript is
as complex as it is, it'd slow down page loading time to add that much to it,
but if it loaded the javascript component/etc list if and only if the user
changed the product popup, it would be much faster for normal use.

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I don't know, that sounds tricky.  The idea here was to allow the browser to
cache the Javascript.  Then if you've loaded show_bug or query recently you
won't need to load it again.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

No wonder nobody ever found this bug with such a bug summary. :)