Spry Data Set visible in Live View, but not on Site.

Question

Hi,
I've used the spry data set widget to create a dynamic table. Everything looks fine in the live view. On the site itself, however, I see only a brief flash of the unpopulated spry table, and then nothing. All necessary files, including those in the SpryAssets folder, have been uploaded.
This is particularly frustating since my first crack at a spry data set worked with ease.
I have the feeling that I missing something simple.  Any ideas?
Here is the table:
http://www.ldcsb.on.ca/ntip/teachphotos/profiletable.html
Here is the spry data set:
http://www.ldcsb.on.ca/ntip/teachphotos/profiles.html
Thanks for looking,
Jim

Answer 1

Jim, Your page comes up fine in Firefox, but as you said it flashes and disappears in IE8.
I notice some differences in the ids and Spry:sort values. You might sort those out (make them the same) and see what happens.
This is in the profiletable:
<td id="Image">Image</td>
<td id="First">First </td>
<td wid="Last">Last </td>                                        lose the w
<td id="Sschool">School</td>                                   lose the extra s
<td id="Grade">Grade </td>
<td id="Subject1">Subject1</td>
<td id="Subject2">Subject2</td>
<td w id="Description">Description</td>                    lose the w and the extra space
And this in the Spry region:
<th spry:sort="Image">Image</th>
<th spry:sort="First">First</th>
<th spry:sort="Last">Last</th>
<th spry:sort="School">School</th>
<th spry:sort="Grade">Grade</th>
<th spry:sort="Subject1">Subject1</th>
<th spry:sort="Subject2">Subject2</th>
<th spry:sort="Description">Description</th>
It's possible that IE is pickier than Firefox that the names be the same.
Other than that, look for things to clean up, like tightening up the table...I notice several places in the data where there are blank lines between the </tr> of one line and the <tr> of the next.  Make sure every entry in the table has a cell for every column.
You're right; it is an easy Widget to work with...unless some tiny thing goes wrong and it doesn't work! I have had a data set that had some of those tiny anomalies, fixed them, and now I know to look for them.
Beth