EasyTable is designed to be "Easy" to use, remember this before getting upset and ranting at my people in support.

EasyTable is written by me, Craig Phillips and no one else, it's written in my downtime when I don't have a paying job to work on that feeds the boys and girls of my business family, so, again, remember this before getting upset and ranting at my boys and girls in support. (Yes Virginia even though 1000s of websites use one or another version of the EasyTable component it doesn't at this point even pay for it's hosting.)

…have table sorting?

Sorting in a web page has lots of issues - first is the fact that browsers are basically widely different in their feature sets right now (yes Internet Explorer I'm looking at you). Next up the way we would like to do it is on top of a descent, modern JavaScript framework like MooTools 1.2.x or later - yes Joomla I'm looking at you. Finally any implementation at this point will have issues because of the proceeding problems.

We are adding sorting to EasyTable Pro as both a backend setting (ie. you pick a field and we sort it before sending the page to the user) and a Javascript feature available by clicking on column headings (if enabled). Again these is not perfect and add a layer of complexity that would be better avoided.

The eventual aim is to move EasyTable Pro to a AJAX based design that will load all records of the table into a page and sort, filter and display them based on user actions without returning to the website for each request.

…have it's own CSS file?

EasyTable is designed so that it uses standard Joomla classes where possible. To this end table headings and rows follow this principle where possible so that properly implemented Joomla templates will format the tables automatically.

The second reason is that every time you add a new file to a template (such as a custom EasyTable CSS file) it slows down the browser experience and adds load to your sever slowing down everyone visiting the website. There's a good reason there are dozens of extensions available to compress, join and minify CSS and JS files in your Joomla tempaltes.

…dispaly in a module?

The original design was for producing full page tables, a module element is being considered for the post 1.0 time frame. Modules though have limited configuration abilities so were not sure exactly what will be possible.

…display in an article?

See above, but an article plug-in will be available post the Joomla 1.6 installation compatible version.

How do I let you know what I want in the next version of EasyTable?

Please use the forums to let us know what features will make EasyTable easier for you to use.