SystemPartners Blog VisualForce Sortable Tables made easy

Are you a Force.com developer? Yes? Then as a Force.com Developer I am guessing that at some point you have faced the challenge of re-creating a table in VisualForce whilst trying to maintain the native Salesforce.com look and feel and I am guessing that the path you took to handle this was using apex:pageBlockTable.But I suspect that many of you, myself included, have encountered issues or limitations with this path including:Rendering in Internet Explorer issuesSorting issuesStyling issuesSituations that require you to stay away from VisualForce components (due to responsive design, performance, or whatever reason)So what's the solution?