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HTML Pocket Reference

Errata for HTML Pocket Reference

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 1
Introduction

This books needs updating to cover HTML 4.01, XHTML, Netscape 6, IE
6, and Opera 5.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 8
<area> tag, coords attribute

Under Polygons, "If shape=poly," should read "If shape=poly or polygon,". See
the syntax of the shape attribute.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 12
<body> attributes

All of the attributes of the <body> tag that are listed are deprecated in HTML
4.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 31
<img> tag description

It would be helpful to know which browsers support the different graphics
formats. For example, which browsers support PNG? Which support MNG?

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 51
type attribute

A list of MIME types that can be used with the <object> tag would be
extremely helpful.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 53
option tag

width attribute of option tag does not exist for any W3C standard I can find.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 57
<small> tag description

<small> is not equivalent to <font size="-1"> unless the current font size is
equal to the default basefont size.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 73
Linking Tags

The <img> tag is missing

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 75
Internet Explorer-only Tags section

The <iframe> tag is part of HTML 4.01, so this tag should be in the HTML
4/Internet Explorer-only Tags section on page 76.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 75
Script tags section

According to page 50, the <noscript> tag is a Navigator-only tag, so it should
go in the Navigator-only Tags section or be listed as "(not part of HTML)".

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 78
Client-side Imagemap, last line

Shouldn't:

USEMAP="map1"
read:

USEMAP="#map1"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 79
Framed Document example

The <noframes> tag should go inside the <frameset> tag, not after the
<frameset> tag.

This example is also missing the <!DOCTYPE> tag <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"> so the W3C validator can validate this
document and newer browsers don't render the document in quirks/quirky mode.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 79
Nested frames example

One of the closing </FRAMESET> tags is missing from the Nested frames example.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 79
Nested frames

One end tag </FRAMESET> is missing. Code needs one before the
last line, aligned with the line "<FRAMESET ROWS="50,150">"
(which starts the nested frameset).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 80
last sentence before table

It would help greatly to explain that the standard entities are from the
Latin-1 character set and the non-standard ones are from the Windows ANSI
(Windows-1252) character set. It would help even more to give a list of
character set values that can be used with the charset attribute and which
OSes and which browsers support which character sets.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 81-82
Character Entity chart

The entries for &#130;, &#138;, &#139;, &#152;, &#154;, and &#155; are
incorrect and should be:

&#130; Low left-rising single quote
&#138; Capital S, caron accent
&#139; Left single angle quote
&#152; Small tilde (tilde accent, as opposed to tilde character &#126;)
&#154; Small s, caron accent
&#155; Right single angle quote

Also, &#142; is missing:

&#142; Capital Z, caron accent

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 81-82
Character Entities

The character entities &#128; and &#158; are missing:

&#128; Euro sign
&#158; Small z, caron accent

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 84
#222:

The "Thorn" in column "Symbol" looks different (compared with the look in
Netscape).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 85
#240: The "eth" in column "Symbol" looks different (compared with the

look in Netscape).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 87-92
Color Name Chart

The colors lightgoldenrod, lightslateblue, navyblue, and violetred are
missing from the table. The table neglects to list which colors have four
variants, such as blue1, blue2, blue3, and blue4, and that gray and grey
have 100 variants: gray1, gray2, ..., gray100.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 89
Color Name chart

The websafe color for lawngreen should be 66FF00.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 90
Color Name chart

The websafe color for lightpink should be FFCCCC.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 92
Color Name chart

Either the RGB or hex color for tomato is incorrect.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 92
yellowgreen entry

The nearest web-safe color for yellowgreen is listed as 66CC33, but it should
be 99CC33.

 Anonymous