The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
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Description |
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Date submitted |
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Page 19
top of the page: |
The author includes instructions for downloading specific fonts into web pages
using CSS. However, to apply the style, he uses a deprecated HTML tag:
<FONT FACE="faceName"></font>
rather than the CSS syntax of:
<SPAN STYLE="font-family: faceName"></span>
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Anonymous |
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Page 37
Table 3-1, border-right property |
The superscript "a" is in Constant Width, should be in Roman.
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Anonymous |
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Page 38
Table 3-1, list-style-image property |
The superscript "a" is in Constant Width, should be in Roman.
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Anonymous |
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Page 153
Example 6-4 |
This code does not work in Netscape 4.08. I downloaded the source just to be
sure, and it didn't work.
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Anonymous |
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Page 290
last paragraph |
I'm not sure if this is an error or not. The first sentence in the last
paragraph reads "Content between the start and end tags is ignored by browsers
that support the IFRAME element." Is this correct? Shouldn't it read "Content
between the start and end tags is ignored by browsers that DO NOT support the
IFRAME element"?
If the statement is correct as is, what does it mean? How can content be
ignored if the IFRAME element is supported by the browser?
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Anonymous |
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Page 301
After first occurance of "Object Model Reference" |
"IE" should read "NN"
I presume this since the <ILAYER> tag is not implemented in IE therefore
the ID would not have a OMR in IE.
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Anonymous |
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Page 323
In the description of the value attribute for the input tag it says that |
value is an acceptable attribute for all input types. This is not true. For
security purposes, value can not be set on input type "file".
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Anonymous |
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Page 431
omission |
The "Value" property is ommitted for this object!!!
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Anonymous |
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Page 561
write(), writeln() explanation under Parameters section |
I see that in the errata for the 6/00 printing, this question was addressed,
but it still doesn't seem to work as it should. When I have a page in NN (so
far tested with 4.5 and 4.75), which generates an entirely new page using
javascript, I construct a string containing the HTML for the new page and
write it using a document.write(), but no matter what I try, it always leaves
out the <script> tags in the new page. In this case, the script tags refer to
an external javascript source file. I have verified that all the HTML is
correct by inserting an alert() immediately before the document.write(). I
will be happy to send the source code for you to test. Incidentally, the same
code in IE 5.5 works flawlessly. I tried the solution posted on the 6/00
errata page, which states that script tags can be generated using "<" +
"SCRIPT>", but it still doesn't work. Maybe this only works when generating a
new page at load time?
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Anonymous |
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Page 621
4th para |
In the DOm, the description of the IMG object is missing sections on the
sourceIndex, src, start, style, tagName and title porperties (all of which are
listed in the properties list on page 615).
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Anonymous |
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Page 678
example for value |
In my printing (1/99), it stands:
Example ......... options[2]value
should be:
Example ......... options[2].value
Note the period!
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Anonymous |
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Page 712
Select Properties |
The "size" property is missing both from the list of properties for the <Select>
object, and from the detailed descriptions in the pages immediately following. It
can however be found in the HTML Reference section, page 396.
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Anonymous |
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Page 736
3rd listing on page - height, width |
This reference to setting the height or getting the value of the height or
width doesn not appear to work in IE browsers on the Mac OS.
Is this a correct listing of the DOM for IE on the Mac OS?
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Anonymous |
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Page 828
second paragraph |
In the code example of window.open(), a non-existent "statusbar" is used where
it should be "status".
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Anonymous |
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Page 841
section on <HR> |
ALIGN description claims:
The ALIGN attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0 in favor
of the align: style sheet attribute
But according to the "CSS Reference" section of this book there isn't an
"align:" style sheet property.
There is a "text-align:" property; I'm only guessing that this is what is
meant.
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Anonymous |
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Page 904
Top of page, I suggest a "Notes" section after the "Object Model |
Reference" section;
This is not an error, but a Note would be helpful. In Netscape 4.76, if you
set an object's visibility to "hidden" or "visible", the string Netscape
returns to you if you later query the value is:
o For <form> fields, "visible" or "hidden"
o But for <span> text, "show" or "hide"
<sigh!/>
Following test case demonstrates this. Just load it and watch alerts:
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
#spanText {position:relative; color:orange;}
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
var isNav, isIE
var coll = ""
var styleObj = ""
if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4) {
if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
isNav = true
} else {
isIE = true
coll = "all."
styleObj = ".style"
}
}
function init() {
inputField = "document." + coll + "myForm.inputText" + styleObj;
spanText = "document." + coll + "spanText" + styleObj;
obj1 = eval(inputField);
obj2 = eval(spanText);
obj1.visibility="visible";
obj2.visibility="visible";
alert("obj1.visibility = " + obj1.visibility);
alert("obj2.visibility = " + obj2.visibility);
obj1.visibility="hidden";
obj2.visibility="hidden";
alert("obj1.visibility = " + obj1.visibility);
alert("obj2.visibility = " + obj2.visibility);
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onLoad="init()">
<FORM Name="myForm">
<input type=text name="inputText">
</FORM>
<span ID=spanText>
TEXT
</span>
</body>
</html>
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Anonymous |
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Page 930
arguments example |
function is missing { at end of first line
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Anonymous |
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Page 931
caller example |
function is missing { at end of first line
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Anonymous |
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Page 939
MIN_VALUE description |
Due to possible reader confusion, I suggest changing "possible number" to
"positive number" (i.e., closest to zero).
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Anonymous |
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Page 939
NEGATIVE_INFINITY, POSITIVE_INFINITY description |
The description for NEGATIVE_INFINITY is incorrect (0 is outside the bounds
described). Change "Number.MIN_VALUE" to "-Number.MAX_VALUE."
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Anonymous |
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Page 963
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var a,b
a = 5
b = a --
should be:
var a,b
a = 5
b = a ++
if the explanation is to hold true.
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Anonymous |
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Page 973
isFinite() description |
The description is incorrect (0 is outside the bounds described and is
certainly finite, as are all the representable negative numbers).
As a minimum, change "Number.MIN_VALUE" to "-Number.MAX_VALUE". Preferably
insert the following after "parameter is": "not NEGATIVE_INFINITY,
POSITIVE_INFINITY or NaN, that is".
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Anonymous |
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