Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>>
>>> I have triggered report re-creation, your data is now included:
>>> http://smolt.hartwork.org:45678/static/stats/gentoo.html
>> I notice an inconsistency. Everything is sorted by popularity, except
>> "Archs", "Chosts", & "System profiles" - By design? It is hard to read
>> at first glance and could get worse as more data is submitted.
> 
> By design, yes.  I made an exception with these as I felt it would not
> be right with these tables.
> 
> In general a user can seek for the answer to (at least) these two
> different questions:
> - What's the top 1, top 2, top 3
> - How does item X (e.g. use flag "mp3") rank
> 
> Doing both in a static table can only be done with JavaScript magic
> that's currently beyond my expertise.
> As a result I had to choose between sort-by-popularity and
> sort-alphabetically.  While a user can still answer the "how does item X
> rank" question using browser text search determining the top N from the
> table in his head alone can be quite a hard task.  So I think the
> sort-by-popularity approach mainly "hurts less".
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on how to improve presentation of the data.

Thanks for the explanation, I would just make it all sorted by 
popularity. Of course, just my opinion. :)

-Jeremy