Difference between revisions of "Talk:Example 2"
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There is another problem, this time concerning the first table of this page: If you use Safari as a browser and sort the table according to population, the result is wrong. I assume this is due to the little footnote. With Firefox it works fine. Is there anything you could do about it. To get an idea what I am using this for have a look at http://en.wiki-products.org/Fuel_economy . --[[User:Gollum2|Gollum2]] 14:10, 11 October 2007 (CEST) | There is another problem, this time concerning the first table of this page: If you use Safari as a browser and sort the table according to population, the result is wrong. I assume this is due to the little footnote. With Firefox it works fine. Is there anything you could do about it. To get an idea what I am using this for have a look at http://en.wiki-products.org/Fuel_economy . --[[User:Gollum2|Gollum2]] 14:10, 11 October 2007 (CEST) | ||
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| + | I assume that Safari sorts lexically as soon as it sees non-numeric contents in one of the cells of a column. And a footnote seems to be treated as "non-numeric"... | ||
| + | Maybe this should be changed in Safari. Or you simply do not use footnotes in numeric data fields you want to be sorted correctly ;-) | ||
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| + | As you already may suspect all this is not a question of DPL. | ||
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| + | Your way of calculating a '''bar chart''' is quite nice. I would appreciate if you could upload a slightly more abstract and stripped-down version to this wiki. | ||
| + | :[[User:Gero|Gero]] 09:49, 12 October 2007 (CEST) | ||
Revision as of 08:49, 12 October 2007
There seems tobe a problem with the second example. If you sort the table by area and population. The result does not make sense. Is there a way to limit the sorting to the fist number a cells content?--Gollum2 14:35, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
Yes, sorting would only make sense if you created separate columns for area and population. You easily do that. Gero 21:57, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
- Well, ok.I was just wondering how the sorting mechanism works. If you have more than just a plain number in the cell things seem to get difficult. Especially when those have different amounts of digits. --Gollum2 14:10, 11 October 2007 (CEST)
There is another problem, this time concerning the first table of this page: If you use Safari as a browser and sort the table according to population, the result is wrong. I assume this is due to the little footnote. With Firefox it works fine. Is there anything you could do about it. To get an idea what I am using this for have a look at http://en.wiki-products.org/Fuel_economy . --Gollum2 14:10, 11 October 2007 (CEST)
I assume that Safari sorts lexically as soon as it sees non-numeric contents in one of the cells of a column. And a footnote seems to be treated as "non-numeric"... Maybe this should be changed in Safari. Or you simply do not use footnotes in numeric data fields you want to be sorted correctly ;-)
As you already may suspect all this is not a question of DPL.
Your way of calculating a bar chart is quite nice. I would appreciate if you could upload a slightly more abstract and stripped-down version to this wiki.
- Gero 09:49, 12 October 2007 (CEST)
