I love MoHPC!

[Jonathan Busby]

Regarding implementing the sorting of the Benchmarks page table according to the column headers, I found what looks to be a pretty well written piece of Javascript that's GPLed : https://www.allmyscripts.com/Table_Sort/ . Using this script, I downloaded the Benchmarks page and added :

Code:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="gs_sortable.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var TSort_Data = new Array ('benchmarks_table', 's', 'd', 'c', 'i', 'i', 'i');
        <!-- tsRegister(); -->
        var TSort_Initial = '0U';
    </script>

to the head section of the Benchmarks.htm HTML file. Next I added an 'id="benchmarks_table"' to the initial "<table>" tag and I had to surround the table column "<th>" headers in "<thead> ... </thead>" tags. I then had to remove the "<tbody> ... </tbody>" tags to get the script to work correctly, but the removal of the "<tbody>" tags didn't seem to have any impact on the rendering of the page or table, in the latest 64-bit Windows 10 version of Firefox at least.

The linked Javascript code also supports saving the sorting order via a cookie, but I didn't add that to the downloaded test page. The documentation for the code shows how to get saved sorting preferences via cookies to work very easily.

Anyways, it's pretty easy to implement using the linked Javascript code, and I think it would improve the Benchmarks page, although that's just my own opinion -- It's up to the Museum Curator to decide if it actually makes the page "better" .

Regards,

Jonathan