Your first question immediately might be, “why would I want to simulate a table with a list, why not just use a table?” With the raise in popularity of AJAX sortable list elements, using list items to represent a multiple column data table can allow for easy sorting of various more “tabley” information. [...]

So yesterday something happened.  Out of nowhere.  I began to “get it”.  All this stuff I was so confused about regarding Rails and Ajax - the holes in my understanding of DOM manipulation.  Now I’m not making claims by any means that I’ve turned into some expert.  I’m simply stating that I’m starting to finally [...]