DataTables 1.5.3 released

allan

Hello all,

It's been a little while in coming, but hopefully you will all find this release of DataTables useful. The main focus is on addressing the known bugs in DataTables, and this release brings my list of known issues back to zero (still plenty of enhancements to be integrated at some point though!).

Having said that there are a couple of new features in this release, the main one is:

- asSorting - a new initialisation parameter for controlling the sorting available (and the default direction) on a column. Example: http://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/sorting_control.html

Others are detailed in the full release notes:
http://datatables.net/download

You can download DataTables 1.5.3 here:
http://datatables.net/releases/dataTables-1.5.3.zip

Also, a big thank you to those who have made a donation to the future support and development of DataTables. If you haven't done so yet, please do consider making a donation :-) :
http://datatables.net/donate

Enjoy!

Regards,
Allan

mathie

Allan,

Thanks for creating such a powerful yet simple plugin. Love the fully-ajaxed option. I'm heading to the donation page :)

gavin

Great work Allan.

mathie

Not sure what has changed but immediately after I upgraded from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3, the header (using jQueryUI theme) no longer has the style applied (it looks like a default TH). Is it a known problem?

mathie

Updated: after a quick test, it looks like it's indeed a problem. Any columns that have {"bSortable":false} do not get the jQueryUI theme applied, those sortable column gets styled properly.

paky

Great work very powerful !! Only 1 problem in IE8 when I load data with Ajax (http://www.datatables.net/examples/data_sources/server_side.html) in Firefox all ok, but in IE8 output alert message 'Warning - Adding data does not match know number of columns' !!! Why ?

thanks

allan

@mathie: Very good catch! I've got a fix for this in my dev version now (drop me a note if you want me to send you a copy - http://datatables.net/contact ), but I'll release this one fairly soon I think.

@paky: The example you point to works no problem for me in IE8 - so I'm not sure what is going on. Does it show you this error on the page load, or do you have to do something special?

Regards,
Allan