title: how to sort by date (new) with jquery isotope
body: <p>Forgive me as I'm a bit novice to JS, just know enough to manipulate. </p>
  
  <p>For those familiar with Isotope ( <a href="http://isotope.metafizzy.co/docs/sorting.html">http://isotope.metafizzy.co/docs/sorting.html</a> ), I have a button at the top of a page to sort by date. Isotope finds the element </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span class="date"&gt; 01/04/2012 &lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$container.isotope({
      getSortData : {
          date : function ( $elem ) {
          return $elem.find('.date').text();
  }});
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which works fine, but I need to flip (descend) the date order</p>
  
  <p>Isotope has a function:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#container').isotope({ 
    sortBy : 'date',
    sortAscending : false
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I can't get it to work - that just makes the default set sort by date, rather than sorting when I click. I think this is just a question of syntax... how/where can I put sortAscending: false  ??</p>
  
  <p>Thanks...</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT Viewing some source from Demos, I see that:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="#sortAscending=false"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can be done, but I'm already sorting by passing this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="#sortBy=date"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which finds a the span from earlier with the date info...</p>