Comments on: An ABC of R2: E is for education tables http://niksilver.com/2008/11/24/an-abc-of-r2-e-is-for-education-tables/ Mostly about the management of software development Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nik http://niksilver.com/2008/11/24/an-abc-of-r2-e-is-for-education-tables/comment-page-1/#comment-33926 Nik Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:04:50 +0000 http://niksilver.com/?p=169#comment-33926 Hi Smylers. That's a good spot on the triangle. The empty rows thing is trickier because strictly speaking an empty string comes before a non-empty string -- and Excel does the same thing. But I do take your point, and I've suggested to the development team that empty rows should appear at the end, regardless of sort order. I'll see what the reaction is. Hi Smylers. That’s a good spot on the triangle. The empty rows thing is trickier because strictly speaking an empty string comes before a non-empty string — and Excel does the same thing. But I do take your point, and I’ve suggested to the development team that empty rows should appear at the end, regardless of sort order. I’ll see what the reaction is.

]]> By: Smylers http://niksilver.com/2008/11/24/an-abc-of-r2-e-is-for-education-tables/comment-page-1/#comment-33925 Smylers Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:22:34 +0000 http://niksilver.com/?p=169#comment-33925 Hi Nik. The triangles indicating the table sorting seem upside down: on that GCSE results table click on the 'number of pupils' header and the small numbers are small at the top (starting with a number of completely empty rows), getting bigger as you go down the page, but the triangle has its big end at the top and small at the bottom. Clicking again reverses the situation. Also, those empty rows are confusing. The first time I clicked on a column header the only rows then visible in my browser window were the empty ones. I initially thought that the entire table had been cleared in anticipation of loading the newly sorted data using Ajax or something; it took me way to long to discover that the data I wanted is actually there if I just page down. Cheers. Hi Nik. The triangles indicating the table sorting seem upside down: on that GCSE results table click on the ‘number of pupils’ header and the small numbers are small at the top (starting with a number of completely empty rows), getting bigger as you go down the page, but the triangle has its big end at the top and small at the bottom. Clicking again reverses the situation.

Also, those empty rows are confusing. The first time I clicked on a column header the only rows then visible in my browser window were the empty ones. I initially thought that the entire table had been cleared in anticipation of loading the newly sorted data using Ajax or something; it took me way to long to discover that the data I wanted is actually there if I just page down.

Cheers.

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