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Drop-in script to make tables sortable

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Drop-in script to make tables sortable

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This is intentional. Since that is an "Other" category, I elected to force it to the bottom of the sort order by setting `<td data-value="0">` for that column. See: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/e07209b89deac83950c...

See my earlier comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6841944) for more info, but yeah, we agree. With most of our open-source projects at HubSpot (http://github.hubspot.com), we've tried to keep things modular and small, doing one thing as well as it possibly could be done. Adding filtering and searching (fuzzy, regex, etc.) is definitely something we'd like to add. (https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/issues/4) ;)

I'm a little biased, but just from reading through, it looks like the original does some pretty out-of-date things. I'm annotating the copy in the new project's repo, just to allow me to link to line numbers, but this IS THE LEGACY PROJECT'S CODE: - Webdings: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... - Using class names, rather than data attributes, for everything: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... - Hardcoded date formats which would make localization tough: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... - Sorting in JavaScript (not using Array.prototype.sort): https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... - Overriding event bindings in a destructive manner: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... Not to mention stuff I just fi

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nd objectionable: - Useless comments: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... - Mistabbing: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438... It also looks like this one is 1/3 the length. To be fair though, the original was written seven years ago, and still works, so it's not really fair to criticize it by modern standards. Suffice it to say that it was time for something new.