Request: Update sorting method for changes in data about stupid-table-plugin HOT 2 CLOSED

This is a very good point I had not considered. I believe toggling should be the default behavior, but you're absolutely right, there should be a way of overriding that behavior. I'll need to decide whether this setting should take place in the HTML (which I'm afraid is already becoming a bit bloated with all the various data-sort attributes we're using) or the plugin itself.

The HTML route, we could have something like

<table id="simpleTable">
    <thead>
        <tr>
        <th data-sort="int">int</th>
        <th data-sort="float" data-sort-no-cache>float</th>
        <th data-sort="string">string</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
  ...

but then we're just saying "HTML semantics be damned", even more than we already are 😛

I actually think the paradigm of specifying ALL settings for a plugin in the initial plugin call is really ugly. The benefit is less chances of name collision, but then you end up with stuff like

$("#selector").myplugin({
        "settingsAttr1": {
            "opt1": 1,
            "opt2": 2
        },
        "settingsAttr2": {
            "opt1":1,
            "opt2":2,
        }
});

I know this is the standard way of doing things, but I really hate it.

So perhaps we could have something along the lines of

var mytable = $("#selector").stupidtable(sortFns)

// Don't cache table columns 0, 1, or 5
mytable.no_stupid_sort_cache(0,1,5);

The implementation of this no_stupid_sort_cache may use data attributes in the JS - the difference is making the plugin handle this makes the HTML less of a config file (which is definitely something I want to avoid)

from stupid-table-plugin.

Columns are no longer just being reversed.

See https://github.com/joequery/Stupid-Table-Plugin/blob/master/stupidtable.js#L109

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