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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Errata for JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 12
2nd Paragraph of section 1.7

This, and a number of other security holes, has been fixed.

NOW READS:
This and a number of other security holes have been fixed.

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2004
Printed
Page 17
top of page

Here's what youll find in Part III

NOW READS:
Here's what youll find in Part II

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 2003
Printed
Page 214
Example 13-5 Extracting arguments from a URL

Two lines were as follows:
args[argname] = unescape(value);
// in JavaScript 1.5 use decodeURIComponent() instead of escape()

They NOW READ:
args[argname] = unescape(value);
// in JavaScript 1.5 use decodeURIComponent() instead of unescape()

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 2003
Printed
Page 381-2
Example 19-3; page 381, the beginDrag() function

else if (document.attachEvent) { // IE 5+ Event Model
// In the IE Event model, we can't capture events, so these handlers
// are triggered when only if the event bubbles up to them.
// This assumes that there aren't any intervening elements that
// handle the events and stop them from bubbling.
document.attachEvent("onmousemove", moveHandler);
document.attachEvent("onmouseup", upHandler);
}

NOW READS:

else if (document.attachEvent) { // IE 5+ Event Model
// In the IE Event model, we capture events by calling
// setCapture() on the element to capture them

elementToDrag.attachEvent("onmousemove", moveHandler);
elementToDrag.attachEvent("onmouseup", upHandler);
elementToDrag.setCapture();
}

AND, page 382, the upHandler() function:

else if (document.detachEvent) { // IE 5+ Event Model
document.detachEvent("onmouseup", upHandler);
document.detachEvent("onmousemove", moveHandler);
}

NOW READS:

else if (document.detachEvent) { // IE 5+ Event Model
elementToDrag.detachEvent("onmouseup", upHandler);
elementToDrag.detachEvent("onmousemove", moveHandler);
elementToDrag.releaseCapture();
}

The fix uses the setCapture() and releaseCapture() methods of IE5 to enable IE's
version of event capturing. Credit for this fix goes to Bob Kline of RK Systems
(http://www.rksystems.com).

 Anonymous    Mar 01, 2005
Printed
Page 395
top line of Example 20-2 (continued)

function supressErrors()...

NOW READS:
function suppressErrors() ...)

Two lines below, similarly:
window.onerror = supressErrors;

NOW READS:
window.onerror = suppressErrors;)

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 2003
Printed
Page 484
Static Functions - Math.exp()

As previously described, 'Computes an exponent of e' is incorrect.

NOW READS:
'computes a power of e.'

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 2003
Printed
Page 556
2nd paragraph from bottom

"It is more common, however, to use the all[] array to retreive..."
PREVIOUSLY IN PRINT: retreive

NOW READS:
retrieve

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 2003