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RE: Sortable Table Question

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Apr 2, 2003 7:14AM

Lisa stated:

> The current app we have does not actually do a page
> refresh - it truncates and then rebuilds the table in place.

I don't know that you have stated it before but it sounds like you are using
a client-side scripting language such as JavaScript to sort the table. It is
my opinion that yes, there would be problems for two reasons (1) if the
language is not supported or disabled and (2) it may not be obvious that a
change has occurred - a new page or refresh would "announce" itself to the
user but a JavaScript resort may not.

Just my 2