Last modified: 2009-02-02 16:41:38 UTC
A column which should sort numerically but which contains even one non-numeric element will not sort correctly or will produce strange results. It seems to sort numerically but leaves lots of numbers out of place at the bottom of the table. This appears to be caused by recent diff: r1=42576&r2=42715">http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/common/wikibits.js?r1=42576&r2=42715 which allows ts_parseFloat to return a non-numeric value. This is rather pointless as the return value isn't see by anything other than javascript's table.sort() which doesn't appear to like it very much. Although browsers could handle this better, it affects (as far as I can see) Firefox and Safari. For a (clearer) example see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blue-Haired_Lawyer/sandbox2
Created attachment 5716 [details] fix numeric sorting
Ideally non-numeric entries in numeric lists (for example unranked entries in GDP lists) should sort to the end of the list regardless of the way the list is being sorted.
This really needs to be fixed. I've increased the priority.
Applied in r46716. Thanks.
