https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67558
Bug ID: 67558
Summary: table editor: sort stable
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
If you sort a table on column A then sort on column B, the result should be a
sort with B as major comparison and A as minor comparison.
Instead you get a sort with B as the major comparison, and A is ordered
randomly, because the sort algorithm used is unstable.
Do not use unstable sort for user interfaces, ever. Your favorite algorithm
might, /might/, be a tiny bit faster, but that feature is completely blotted
out by the importance of usability.
Click to sort ascending on column 1.
-> table resorted ordered by column 1
Click to sort ascending on column 2.
-> table resorted ordered by column 2
-> column 1 is no longer sorted
Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors
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