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HTML: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 82, 83
Attributes that contain anything other than [a-zA-Z0-9] must

be quoted in HTML. The examples for <font> at least use unquoted +n
attributes, which are not legal.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 270-271
In 9.3.3.5 for the font-weight style, you say "Netscape

supports the numeric boldness values; Internet Explorer does not."
This is only partly true.

If you declare font attributes in the *font property*, MSIE 3.01 (Mac)
does not merely ignore this number; it reads it as the font size. So:

DIV { font: 400 12pt/14pt serif italic }

displays a 12pt serif italic normal-weight font in N4.0, and a 400pt
serif font in MSIE. Yikes!

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 353
Figure 11-4 shows "Another Line" whereas the html code

supposedly used to generate this figure uses the text "Line 2" on page
354.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 414
In section 13.3.3 at the bottom of page 414 is the following

example for an onMouseOver command:

<a href=doc.html onMouseOver="document.status='Click me!'; return
true">

Shouldn't it have quote marks around -doc.html-?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 477
next-to-last entry: it would appear that this whole beginning of

the sentence should not be there since there is already an indicator
to the right saying the same thing (circled I) and I don't see it
called out anywhere else in the Quick Reference.

{section 11.2} The align tag within a table is NOT supported in
Netscape 3.0. There is no mention of this in the chapter.

 Anonymous