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I never like Javascript. Still don't. But I still find myself drawn
to DHTML in interfaces. It's more responsive, and frequently a lot
easier to implement (even if I'm still a Javascript novice).
Most recently I used sorttable
in a project. It was far easier to implement than a server-side
sorting, especially if you want to sort orthogonally from search terms
or other selectors, or handle multiple sortable tables in the same
page. And it gives a better user experience to boot. I'm not sure
about the browser compatibility, but the application already has high
browser requirements (since it include a WYSIWYG editor) so I'm not
too concerned.
Since I'm still a server-side programmer, I made a few extensions to
make it easier to customize. You can add a sortval attribute
to a table cell, which will be used for sorting instead of the
contents of the cell, and a sortsuppress="1" attribute to
column headers to suppress sorting on that cell. This way I can use
nicely-formatted dates like "Yesterday, 8:42am" in my cells, but put
the timestamp in the sortval attribute to sort on. The
modified code is here.
I'm very pleased with the result. Cheers to Stuart Langridge for a
nice bit of code. (His expandable
tree code was also helpful)
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