The sortable table system in MediaWiki was completely rewritten in r86088;
unfortunately this was done without benefit of any unit testing or
regression testing, and there seem to be a lot of new bugs introduced.
I've started adding test cases for table sorting in r90595; this adds a
qunit test su
Brion Vibber wrote:
> The sortable table system in MediaWiki was completely rewritten in
> r86088;
> unfortunately this was done without benefit of any unit testing or
> regression testing, and there seem to be a lot of new bugs introduced.
The legacy script was removed from svn without depreca
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Krinkle wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> > The sortable table system in MediaWiki was completely rewritten in
> > r86088;
> > unfortunately this was done without benefit of any unit testing or
> > regression testing, and there seem to be a lot of new bugs introduc
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> [snip]
> The ascending sort by name usually works, but if called twice on two
> tables, the second table usually gets sorted *completely* incorrectly. This
> can be easily confirmed by manual inspection by copying a page such as
> http://test
Brion Vibber wrote:
>> This also makes sure our behaviour is in harmony with the expectation
>> set by our javascript deprecation page [1] and will not break gadgets
>> that are usiung (parts of) the legacy ts_* functions (which are global
>> functions).
>
> Those are internal functions (just poorl
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Platonides wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > Those are internal functions (just poorly namespaced), anything using
> them
> > can be expected to fail at any time.
>
> I agree with you. I but note that the new code won't get the
> localization fixes done by overridi
Additionally, a project can also cleanly define custom parsers (some unusual
date/numbers or whatever format they have).
$.tablesorter.addParser( {
id: "specialFormat",
is: function (s) {
//Check if content is specialFormat
return isSpecialFormat;
},
format: function (s) {
//Return normalized Str
