[thelist] sorting html tables in IE and NN
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 25 15:23:26 CDT 2001
>strange problem: so that he could implement an alphabetical sort
>functionality for linked text in a table, one of my colleagues has placed
>all the links and text in to a javascript array. this all get written out
>onload, and then users can click the sort button to sort, etc. no database
>is used.
>
>the problem with this technique is that the page is not being indexed by
>search engines. because there's no "Text" per se, just script! <Sigh>
>
>short of a database, is there a better way to implement this kind of
>sorting without using arrays? we could do it with data binding and dhtml,
>but alas we must support NN 4.76.
There is no way. NN4 can´t read XML files so you can´t send them to this
browser.
ppk
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