Show Addresses Form: Column sort arrows vanished?

[g_p_c]

None of my various browsers will display those valuable up/down sort arrows when entering the "show addresses" form. For me they have vanished. Every now and then I have the same problem.
Ist there something broken, actually?
Gottfried.

[Guest]

- althought I haven't seen it before

[josh]

oh... yeah. Try clicking on the column header cells -- hopefully, the rows will sort locally, and a little text arrow will appear in the header cell, showing the direction of the sort. It's an improvement...

[Guest]

oh... yeah. Try clicking on the column header cells -- hopefully, the rows will sort locally, and a little text arrow will appear in the header cell, showing the direction of the sort. It's an improvement...

That does work, but there are no cues whatsoever that the header cells are clickable. A mouseover turns the cursor to a text insertion style cursor... sure doesn't BEHAVE like a clickable button - although again, if you DO click on it, it does work (at least for me).

[SysKoll]

Maybe add a text "click on the column headers to sort" and put the headers in link style?

[crazycomputers]

You could always give the headers the CSS attribute:

cursor: pointer;

Problem solved.

[josh]

done -- that is better, and was easy. thanks!

[gpc]

I tried it. No effect using Opera 5.11.
IEX 5.50 reacts indeed - but slow.
Again I state those up/down arrows have been visible, even in Opera.
Seems you use onclick="sortColumn...
Why no support for older browsers?

BTW, your "submit" button doesn't work either in Opera 5.11...

[crazycomputers]

I tried it. No effect using Opera 5.11.
IEX 5.50 reacts indeed - but slow.

Both of those browsers are what, years old?

About speed: if you've got quite a few disposables, then you're asking an interpreted, loosely-typed language to sort the columns, then push them to the browser, which has to re-render the columns. On AMD 2500+, running Firefox on Linux, it takes about 1 second to sort them. At any rate, it's faster than waiting for the sorted page to download from the server.

P.S. When will the Lua scripting language be embedded in a browser? :>

Again I state those up/down arrows have been visible, even in Opera.
Seems you use onclick="sortColumn...
Why no support for older browsers?

josh, this is a valid point. How about leaving the old arrows in, wrapping them all in <noscript> tags? This would allow JS browsers to sort locally, while not denying sorting to users of older or non-JS browsers (e.g. ELinks, which I use regularly).

[gpc]

Both of those browsers are what, years old?

Yes, still using an older 350 MHz machine, Win95 - and Opera5.11/5.12 because once ago I purchased Opera3.62... which would still be my preferred browser, really quick on old PC's - but lacks Java... my license ends at Opera 5.x versions... and I do not want to license those overcrowded newer Opera versions.
And, in fact, IEX 5.50 is the newest version I can use on Win95...
Indeed I like that old system, it's quick and slim.

[crazycomputers]

Indeed I like that old system, it's quick and slim.

And slim means not many features, including "proper" support for JS events. Not that I'm against slim systems -- I have one. But when I use it, I expect things to break.