Last modified: 2011-11-20 21:18:33 UTC
Created attachment 5330 [details] unified diff file This patch allows users to use use headers which span more than one column in sortable tables. Currently MediaWiki used .cellIndex to identify the column number that doesn't take account to cells which span more than one column. In any colspan'ed block of columns, the rows would be sorted by the leftmost column with the rest behaving as unsortable columns. For an example where this patch would be useful, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita my intent would be to have four headers (Country, IMF, World Bank, Cia) over seven columns (Country, IMF rank, IMF figure, World Bank rank, etc...). Rather than the current more confusing layout.
To perhaps better explain this patch in the hope of getting some attention. This patch would allow me to do this on the GDP article table, and similar tables... +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Country | IMF | World Bank | C.I.A. | +-------------+------+---------+------+---------+------+---------+ | France | 1 | 35,000 | 2 | 30,000 | 1 | 33,000 | | Ireland | 5 | 20,000 | 3 | 17,000 | 3 | 21,000 | | Bangalore | 256 | 5,000 | 100 | 6,000 | 130 | 80,000 | | ... | | | | | | | (I'm not sure if this will display correctly.)
Adding the "need-review" keyword for patches that need review by developers. bluehairedlawyer, thank you for your patch, and sorry it's taken so long for a response on this!
Hey Sam, am I right in inferring that you marked this patch as obsolete because it does not currently apply cleanly to trunk? bluehairedlawyer, if you're interested in revising your patch to work with MediaWiki's current codebase, please visit us in #mediawiki on IRC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC and talk about it. Thanks.
It won't apply as the table sorter code isn't in wikibits now As well as being pretty obsolete. The code has been rebuilt on jquery, so is completely deprecated
