The IFRAME approach isn’t very nice and it seems like it’s submitting to the server each time you sort (though I think it’s just an odd paint/refresh style).

Still, the idea of accepting the learning curve of a widget system in JS is quite agreeable. Echo uses the MPL licence, which I need to double-check, but I think is quite acceptable. GPL of something that has to be distributed to be used is far too harsh.

Also very tempting is the Open Laszlo system that outputs Flash. A nice Flash table seems very nice, need to play with that.

(I’ve updated and bounced the DNS for generationjava.com and flamefew.net, see if that helps.)

Sortable columns.
Highlightable columns (with user-chosen colour via colour picker).
Zebra striping.

http://blog.generationjava.com/~hen/test-table.html is a relatively up to date example. It’s since been integrated into my report-runner project.

A filter on the table is a todo.