UI change for enter bug

[David Miller]

Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:35 -0600, Gregary Hendricks wrote:
>> Selecting either a classification or product would refactor the page with the 
>> description off to one side of the dropdown. The refactoring could be 
>> javascript which would make it fast. For those with javascript disabled, a 
>> link that displays the page much as it currently exists would be good.
> 
> 	Sounds good to me, as long as it was clear to users that they had to
> first select a Classification and a Product. Might want to hide the rest
> of the page before they do.
> 
> 	To do this, you'd probably want to take the current query.cgi
> JavaScript and make it totally generic. If you do this, try to keep in
> mind the fact that we may have fields (in the future) whose lists depend
> on other things than Product, and so the code should be expandable for
> that. (See bug 308253 and bug 291433.)

How about a little AJAX (with some fallback for people with old
browsers)?  When you change the product, have it pull the list of
components and such from the server and populate it.

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