Webmaster in a Nutshell
by Stephen Spainhour & Valerie Quercia



This errata page only lists errors outstanding in the most recent
printing, 12/97.  To find the printing date of your copy, look in the 
lower-right hand corner of the copyright page for a date in brackets.

Errors that were corrected in the 12/97 printing and previous printings 
are NOT listed on this page.



This page was last updated on March 4, 1999.


Here's a key to the markup:

        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


{61} The tenth and eleventh lines read:

	&#150;   |         |         | Em Dash           |  N
	&#151;   |         |         | En Dash           |  N

but should read: 

	&#150;   |         |         | En Dash           |  N
	&#151;   |         |         | Em Dash           |  N

...also the symbols in the Symbol column need to switched.


{77} 2nd code example, line 3: "$STDIN" should be "STDIN"


(190) line 3: append a pair of parens to "Date.parse" (to make
"parse()")

(190) 1st code block, lines 3-5: the left-hand listings should be 
in constant-width font


(193-194) under "cookie": last 3 paragraphs should be aligned with 
the preceding paragraphs.


(208) list item 2, "src":  the text next to "src" should be pushed 
to the next line


(217-218) there are extraneous dollar signs around "e" in several
instances on these pages


(219) line 2: "$x sup y$" should be x^y ("^y" would be superscript y)


(221) line 4:  "(e.g., Mozilla/2.01 (win16; I)" should be 
"(e.g., Mozilla/2.01 (win16; I))" 


(223) last text para.: the comma after "toString()" should be removed


(236) middle of the page: last "code" in "The code above code embeds
..." should be deleted




Unconfirmed errors (mostly suggested by readers):

?general? I have one big suggestion on your otherwise excellent book.
You need to provide a page or two on image mapping in HTML.  It is a
very powerful and increasingly popular feature to add <MAP
name=localdef> with a set of <AREA> tags within the HTML code. Then
the image being displayed is locally linked with <IMG SRC=... ISMAP
USEMAP="#localdef">.  It beats having separate .MAP files and is
easier to create and debug.


?chapter 4? The chapter on frames should mention Netscape's inability
to properly deal with the <noframes> tag. The problem is that the
<noframes> tag should work within any page, not just in <frameset>
pages.  MSIE 3 supports this, but not Netscape 3.  See
http://www.newbie.net/frames/2ed/5.htm#broken_noframes for details.


{35-38}HTML 3.2 standard said TR, TD and TH were empty tags, so there
are no tags </TD>, </TH>, </TR>.


{81} last paragraph of Checkbox section: it is stated that several
checkboxes with the same name attribute yield a comma-separated
string.  I tried this with Navigator 3.04 and I get an &-separated
string.  Perhaps different browers use different separators.


{163} "Authorization": the base64 encoded string decodes to a different 
value than the one mentioned in the book, "webmaster:zrmqa4v" (mind the 
q in front of the a) instead of "webmaster:zrma4v" 


{184} 2nd para., line 1: "<name>" should be "name"

{184} code sample 2, line 2: "name=3D"anchor_name"" should be
"[name=3D"anchor_name"]"

{222} last line of code: "binary_value = n.toString(2);" should read
"binary_value = value.toString(2);"

(230) para. 1, line -1, "the name property": "name" should not be in italics

{232} last line: "reset.onchange();" should read "select.onchange();"

{233} code 1, line 4:

        name="name

should be 

        [name="name"]

and in the line comments,  "specifies name property", "name" should be
in constant width


{235} para. under "link()", line 2:  "<a href="size">" should be 
"<a href="url">" 

and line 3: "href" shouldn't be in italics


{237} paragraph entitled "HTML syntax", line 1: this paragraph
deals with the "submit object", not with the "reset object", so the
first line should read "A Submit object is created ..."


{268?} example: "DocumentRoot /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/" should be
"DocumentRoot usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/" (remove first backslash)