The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
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Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
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Page vi
Section 13.1 |
"Dynamiic" should be "Dynamic."
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Page 8
1st paragraph |
"Exstensible" should be "Extensible."
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Page 8
2nd paragraph |
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Page 25
first footnote |
"<br/>" was changed to "<br />."
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 37
2nd paragraph |
"object-oriented" now reads "object-based" and "applets" now reads "programs."
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 46
Paragraph 5; First sentence |
"between 0 and 255" was deleted. The text now reads:
...and a decimal value corresponding to the entity's position...
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 50
3.6.1.2., The lang attribute |
"Hindu" has been changed to "Hindi".
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 55
"<body>" |
ONBLUE and ONFOCUS were added to the list of attributes.
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 56
third line from bottom |
"current rc of" now reads "current version of".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 58
3rd paragraph; |
The second example time has been changed from "1998-02-22T19:26-05:00" to
"1998-02-22T09:26-05:00"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 63
1st paragraph, right below the box |
", although no browser currently supports this value" was removed from the
sentence. The text now reads:
...to align both the left and right margins of the text.
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 63
section 4.1.1.2: |
"and deprecated in the current standards" has been removed from the sentence.
The text now reads:
Supported only by Internet Explorer, the nowrap attribute suppresses...
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 69
3rd paragraph |
"An paragraph" should be "A paragraph".
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Anonymous |
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Page 77
"Content-Based Style Tags" illustration |
removed "ALIGN" in Attributes section.
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 82
4th line |
"monospace font" now reads "italics."
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 83
Table 4-1, "Internet Explorer" column |
"monospace bold" now formatted in bold, not just monospace.
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 85
"Physical Style Tags: illustration |
removed "ALIGN" in Attributes section.
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 88
Table 4-2 |
The sub and sup text should be higher or lower than the adjacent text, but not
any smaller.
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Page 98
example XHTML code |
<img src="kumquat.gif" align="absmiddle">
This line now has a " /" before the closing ">" to follow the XHTML rules.
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 103
In the <pre> illustration, ALIGN has been removed from the list of |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 115
code |
"webmaster@ora.com" was changed to "webmaster@oreilly.com."
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 119
In the <hr> illustration, LANG and DIR have been added to the |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 123
final paragraph, 2nd sentence |
"big squares" has been changed to "big rectangles".
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 145
footnote |
The word "individually" is misspelled.
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Page 149
2nd full paragraph |
Change "user's" to "users" and "town's" to "towns"
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Page 152
Section 5.2.7.2 |
At the end of the section, add:
"With Internet Explorer version 5 and later, users stop movie
playback with the browser's stop button, and may restart it by
right-clicking on the movie image and selecting "Play" from the
dialog menu options."
The Figure 5-20 caption should read:
"The controls attribute, no longer supported, added video
playback controls to inline movies."
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Page 152
The first paragraph in Section 5.2.7.2 now starts with |
"Normally, Internet Explorer plays a movie inside a framed
viewport once, without any visible user controls. Although no
longer supported with Internet Explorer version 5 or later,
with older versions of the browser the user may restart..."
The Figure 5-20 caption now reads:
"The controls attribute added video playback controls to inline movies."
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 154
Section 5.3.1.1. |
first sentence now begins:
"One standard, although deprecated, way..."
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 156
Fig. 5-22 and Fig. 5-23 were switched (including captions). |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 163
Table 5-1 |
A row was added:
"PNG Image png Any"
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 182
4th paragraph |
The last sentence of the paragraph (beginning with "Do notice...") has been
removed.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 188
Add to end of section 6.6.11.2 |
Common "dot-slash" pathname notations also let you express
the current directory ("./") and directory above the current
directory (parent; "../") in a relative URL. The current
directory notation is rarely used, since it is redundant. But
the parent notation lets you set the target URL to directories
in other branches of the filesystem hierarchy.
For example, if the directory portion of the current URL is
/planting/special/, and you want to reference an HTML document
named new_ground.html in planting/standard/, you may simply
form the relative URL as:
../standard/new_ground.html
You'll actually be retrieving:
http://www.kumquat.com/planting/standard/new_ground.html
Note that parent notation has limits. For instance, most Web
servers will not let you navigate above its base directory:
http://www.kumquat.com/../ probably won't deliver any document
or directory listing to your browser.
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Page 193
<a> code sample, 2nd line |
now reads:
...A yummy recipe for kumquat soup...
(See caption in Fig. 6-3).
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 206
<map> illustration |
Remove all but NAME from attribute list.
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Page 207
Remove sections 6.5.3.2-.3. |
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Page 208
In the <area> illustration, DIR has been added to the list of attributes. |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 215
Last paragraph |
"allow the" has been replaced with "allow the deprecated". The text now reads:
...standards only allow the deprecated <isindex> tag to be placed...
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 216
6.6.1.1, line 2-3 |
Text of default prompt is not appropriate to the referenced figure. (The
figure had been updated, but not the text.)
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Page 219
comment in first paragraph now reads: |
"The <base> tag should appear only in the document header,
not its body contents"
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 219
4th paragraph; second sentence |
"The browser actually forms" was changed to: "The browser should (but
doesn't always) form".
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 220
6.7.2, last line before 6.7.2.1 |
"The link tag has ... no closing </link> element" was changed to "The <link>
tag has no content and only XHTML supports the closing </link> tag."
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 235
7.3.1.1, 4th line of 2nd paragraph |
"Netscape Navigator version 6" now reads "Netscape version 6" (since in
version 6 they changed the name).
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 235
7.3.1.1, 3rd paragraph |
In the reference to Figure 7-4 on next page "as rendered by Netscape" has been
changed to "as rendered by Internet Explorer".
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 237
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The nesting example should read:
<ul>
<li>Morning Kumquat Delicacies
<ul>
<li>Hot Dishes
<ul>
<li>Kumquat omelet</li>
<li>Kumquat waffles
<ul>
<li>Country style</li>
<li>Belgian</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Kumquats and toast</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Cold Dishes
<ul>
<li>Kumquats and cornflakes</li>
<li>Pickled Kumquats</li>
<li>Diced Kumquats</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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Page 240
1st paragraph |
"tags between them" was changed to "tags at the end of their content".
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 240
end of 1st paragraph |
The extraneous period at the end of the paragraph was removed.
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 244
last line before 7.7.1.1 |
"Mosiac" now reads "Mosaic".
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 251
code, last line |
"<h1>" (second, at end of line) now reads "</h1> (inserted slash).
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 253
Bottom; |
In the last line of the code example, the ":" after "body" was removed.
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 257
2nd paragraph; |
"previous example" was changed to "example in section 8.1.2"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 260
4th paragraph |
"capital letters... ...innermost level:" was changed to: "upper-case Roman
numerals for the outer level, capital letters for the next level, Arabic
numerals for the next, and lower-case letters for the innermost level:"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 262
third paragraph, 4th line: |
last word should be "occasions."
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Anonymous |
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Page 265
fourth paragraph, second line |
Remove "to exactly one tag".
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 268
8.3.5, code |
Change "text-weight" to "font-weight" and "text-style" to "font-style" (last
three lines).
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 269
Section 8.4.1.2., second paragraph |
The text used to read:
...em, which is the height of m in the current font...
It was changed to:
...em, which is the width of m in the current font...
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 279
last paragraph, code |
In the first example for section 8.4.4.5. the vertical position value for the
background-position property is given as "middle". The value now reads
"center" as described in the preceding paragraph.
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 281
last sentence |
removed "(more commonly known as leading among typographers)".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 283
Example at the top of the page |
Two commas were inserted. The code example now reads:
a:visited, a:link, a:active {text-decoration: underline overline}
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 293
2 lines before 8.4.6.10 |
"Netscape Navigator 6" now reads "Netscape 6".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 297-298
<ol> lists at end of page 297 and top of page 298 |
Add closing </li> tags (because of the XHTML rules).
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Page 300
3rd paragraph now begins "Although deprecated, the <span> tag..." |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 306
The <form> illustration is missing the "accept" attribute. HTML 4.01 has |
this attribute on both the "form" and "input" tags.
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Page 306
<form> illustration |
The icon after "NAME" was removed.
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 310
first paragraph |
"The browser may chose ..."
should read:
"The browser may choose ..."
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Page 317
Table 9-1 |
changed caption to read "Required and Some Common Form Element Attributes".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 318
<input> tag box |
The "OMMOUSEOVER" attribute should be "ONMOUSEOVER".
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Page 329
button illustration |
Function line should read "Create a button..."
"OMMOUSEOVER" should be "ONMOUSEOVER."
Add "TABORDER" and "NOTAB" as attributes.
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Page 332
<textarea> |
removed "N" icon after "WRAP"
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 334
In the <select> illustration, removed "ONSELECT". |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 335
In the <option> illustration, ONSELECT was removed from the list of |
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Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 335
<option>, End tag section |
"...always omitted..." has been changed to: "...usually omitted..."
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 337
In the <optgroup> illustration, "ONSELECT" was removed from the list of |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 348
last paragraph; |
The text used to read:
"The align attributes in the table cells force the labels to the left and the
elements to the right"
It was changed to:
"The align attributes in the table cells force the labels to the right and the
elements to the left"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 359
<table> |
The "N" icon was added to the "BACKGROUND" attribute.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 360
10.2.1.2, 3rd paragraph: |
The text used to read:
The background attribute, a nonstandard extension supported
by Internet Explorer,...
It was changed to:
The background attribute, a nonstandard extension supported
by the popular browsers,...
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 368
Table 10-1 |
The "a" footnote was removed from the "justify" entries in the table.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 370
<th> and <td> |
The "N" icon was added to the "BACKGROUND" attribute.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 375
Last full paragraph |
Remove the second comma after "result".
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Page 388
Code example |
The second <tbody> tag (before "Females under 18") was deleted.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 393
<frameset> |
"ONBLUR" and "ONFOCUS" were removed from the list of attributes.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 402
5th paragraph: |
"With Netscape only,..." was changed to: "With the popular browsers,..."
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 420
12.2.1.7., 1st paragraph |
"or a percentage of the display" was removed from the text. The last sentece of
the paragraph now reads:
The value for each of these dimension attributes should be an actual number of
pixels.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 425
code example following 3rd paragraph |
The code used to read:
valuetype="url"
It was changed to:
valuetype="ref"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 428
12.2.3.7.: |
"or as a percentage of the containing element" was removed from the text. The
last sentence now reads:
They all accept avlues indicating the size of the region in pixels.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 432
<noembed> tag summary box |
The end tag section used to read:
None
It has been changed to:
</noembed>; never omitted
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 436
<noscript> |
Remove all 16 attributes.
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Page 437
Table 12-1, onBlur |
Remove asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>".
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Anonymous |
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Page 437
Table 12-1, onBlur |
The asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>" were removed.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 438
Table 12-1, onFocus |
Remove asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>".
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Page 438
Table 12-1, onFocus |
The asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>" were removed.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 449
mini-TOC and 13.1 header |
"Dynamiic" should be "Dynamic".
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Page 449
mini-TOC and 13.1 header |
"Dynamiic" was changed to: "Dynamic".
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 459
1st paragraph |
", or after completing 60 cycles (about five minutes)" was removed from the
text. The last sentence now reads:
The update continues until the browser breaks the connection by moving on to
another document.
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 486
15.1.1, end of paragraph 2 |
"Netscape Navigator 6" -> "Netscape 6"
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Page 503
Code |
The third line of code used to read:
<zip length="9">27513-1234</zip>
There are actually ten characters (with the hyphen), not nine. The line has
been changed to:
<zip length="10">27513-1234</zip>
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 511
section 16.2.3, code |
The code used to read:
" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd "
The spaces inside the double quotes were unnecessary and have been removed. The
code now reads:
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 518
1st line |
"amout" should be "amount."
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Page 519
2nd paragraph, 2nd line |
"workse" should be "works".
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Page 522
last paragraph |
"Designing for the Web" is out-of-print. Replace with "Web Design in a
Nutshell."
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Page 522
last paragraph |
"Designing for the Web" is out-of-print. It was replaced with "Web Design in a
Nutshell."
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 525
code example |
The 5th line used to read:
<ul class="checked"
It was changed to:
<ul class="checks"
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Page 532
In the code example, "<br>" was changed to "<br/>. The ninth line of code |
now reads:
<td>a href="#arts"><h6>Kumquat influence<br/>in the Arts</h6><a/></td>
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 546
head_content rule |
The rule is written as the following:
head_content ::= <base>
| <isindex>
| <link>
| <meta>
| <nextid>
| style_tag
| title_tag
The script_tag rule MUST be included in the head_content rule. It should read:
head_content ::= <base>
| <isindex>
| <link>
| <meta>
| <nextid>
| style_tag
| title_tag
| script_tag
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Page 553
onBlur and onFocus should be listed under <a> tag. |
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Page 556
<bgsound> now has an * instead of an "I" icon. |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 557
"type" and "tabindex" are now in sequence. |
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Page 558
Remove "<dir>" attribute. |
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Page 561
<frameset>: |
class, id, style, and title attributes should be added.
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Page 561
<frameset> now has an *. |
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Page 565
onClick should be added as an attribute. |
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Page 565-569
In the illustrations on pages 317 and 318, onClick is shown as |
an attribute. In the HTML Quick Reference starting on page, the input
types should have onClick listed under them on pages 565-569.
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<input type=checkbox>, taborder |
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Page 567
<inpute type=image>, usemap |
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Page 570
<label> |
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Page 572
4th line |
Insert space between conjunction and with.
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Page 573
<multicol>, width |
"n" in "width=n" is now italic.
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Page 573
<object>, align |
end of description: "around the applet" now reads "around the object"
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<object> |
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Page 574
<ol>, type |
"Ararbic" now reads "Arabic".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 574
<option>, disabled |
"this group" (copied from entry above) now reads "this option".
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 577
The align for table says "either left or right"; it now reads "in the |
center." Also, an "N" icon was added.
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 578
<td>, rowspan, right column |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 580
1st line, right column |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 586
font-size-adjust, 3rd column |
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Page 589
vertical-align, 2nd column |
"baseline" is now in constant-width font instead of italic.
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 627
" |
symbol is now a straight double quote, not a typographical character
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 628
' |
symbol is now a straight single quote, not a typographical character
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 631
The symbol for entity 214 is missing |
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Page 631
Ö |
The symbol is now O umlaut.
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Mar 01, 2001 |
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Page 631
The symbol for entity 208 was incorrect. It has been replaced with the |
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Aug 01, 2001 |
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Page 632
ý |
symbol is missing the accent
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