- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:47:49 +1100
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: > On 6.11.2012 23:18, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > * data-type: date, number, text etc which determines the comparison > > function used in sort > > It would be very difficult to support sorting on dates and numbers as in > HTML they are usually present formatted using specific locale. So there > should be additional attribute added to td/th which can hold sort key > which will override cell contents, something like > > <td sortas="2012-11-07">11. listopadu 2012</td> Agreed. My example was very crude and simple and worked fine for our purposes, but something more generic (and internationalized) needs more functionality like this. Silvia.
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