Its about being a prototype, Mochikit and the like minded.

Its about being a prototype, Mochikit and the like minded.

Jun 23

I love prototypes, here is what I have been doing.

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Mochikit uses simple attributes, to create an unobtrusive _Javascript based interface. I used the sortable tables demo. There were two issues, only ISO standard strings were allowed on the date sorting and no blank strings please we are puritans

The issues

There were primarily two issues

• My date input was non-standard, short month name – mm -yyyy ( Jan-05-2006) .
• The date sorting crashed, if the date string was blank

Issue 1: Non-standard dates

The solution

If you have no idea what’s going on, I strongly suggest looking through the sortable tables demo and setting it up on your local box .

Line 98 of sortable_tables.js

Dobj=obj.split('-');
myobj=Date.parse(Dobj);
theobj=new Date(myobj);
obj=theobj;
break;The solution basically parses the date object by splitting it into an arrray and create a new date object for the consumption of the script. The solution basically parses the date object by splitting it into an arrray and create a new date object for the consumption of the script

Issue 2 : Blank Date-strings, crashing the sort.

If a blank string was entered, the sorting tend to crash for the “isodate” sorting.

The solution

Line 96 of sortable_tables.js

case 'isoDate': //In case date's are null, move them to the end
if(obj=="") obj="Jan-05-2200" ;


This takes care of the code, if the date string was empty, moving it to a future which is not displayed on the table but passed to the string.