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Ajax Hacks

Errata for Ajax Hacks

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 7
First code fragment

The way this is written, I don't think that the code
if (!request){
request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
will ever be executed. The note on page 5 suggests that
the previous attempt to initialize the request via
request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
will be successful if Msxml2 is present.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 20
Line 1

""docDisplay"" should be "docDisplay"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 20
line 7

request.setRequestHeader(""Content-Type"",
""application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"");
should be:
request.setRequestHeader("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8");


 Anonymous   
Printed Page 127
First code sample

<textarea name="tarea" rows="20" id="question" cols="20" onblur="if (this.value)
{doSomething();}">

The values for the attributes 'name' and 'id' should be swapped. Name should be
"question" and id should be "tarea".

Code used later on the same page ...document.getElementById("tarea");...
won't work otherwise.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 238
lines 7 and 8 of XML sample

The text reads that the last file referenced contains code for the application, but
the file is listed first in the XML instead of last

Lines 7 and 8 of the XML sample should appear after line 16 of the XML sample to be
consistent with the description.

Anonymous