Thanks for the replies guys, one additional question I had which I didn't see directly answered would be the type of browsers it should be compatible with or was tested on? The main page shows some browsers listed but I think that was simply demonstration data to show off the script and wasn't actually showing the versions it was supposed to support.
Re:Sort tables fast with Sortable.js
by afschwartz on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:57PM
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Browser support is listed in the documentation (http://github.hubspot.com/sortable): IE8+, Firefox 4+, Current WebKit (Chrome, Safari), Opera.
Great, thanks! The Internet Explorer one was the one I was probably most curious about. I'll have to give it a test go and see if I can go ahead and use it to supplant the older sorttable in my script ;-).
Here is a short summary of some of the major changes:
– Tables with `data-sortable` attribute are automatically initialized.
– The sort arrows are made with CSS-border triangles instead of special characters.
– The sort arrows are always present but hidden for non-sorted columns so that columns don't resize when sorting.
– `sorttable_`-prefixed class names are now `data-` attributes, so they are valid HTML5.
– The library doesn't attempt to recognize date formats. Instead, it recommends you add `data-value="#{ timeInMillis }"` to your <td> containing a human-readable date string.
I'm sure there are more that I can't think of at the moment, but that's a decent list.