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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 "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.


Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 13
Last sentence on page

Upcoming.org is referred to as Upcoming.com. (The latter is a parked domain, the former is the correct site.)

Note from the Author or Editor:

Yes, should be changed to "upcoming.org"

Jennie  Jun 2009
Printed Page 50
Figure 2.27 legend

I'm wondering if the legend of Figure 2.27 is accurate.
It says : Yahoo! Mail mistakenly shows a valid indicator instead of an invalid indicator....

Should not it be Yahoo! Mail mistakenly shows an invalid indicator instead of an valid indicator....

Seems to be different from the text of the paragraph that follows the figure.... which states the other way round (1 - invalid and 2- Valid).

Thanks for clearing this matter for me :-)

Note from the Author or Editor:
To clear this up let's change the text slightly.

Original text:
"Yahoo! Mail mistakenly shows a valid indicator instead of an invalid indicator for a message when it is dragged back over the inbox"

Corrected text:
"Yahoo! Mail displays an invalid indicator when first dragging over the inbox then mistakenly displays a valid indicator when the message is dragged back over the inbox"

nnicoletis 
Printed Page 83
Caption for Figure 4-5

Current text reads:
Google Mail uses an in-context tool to flag favorites

Change to this:
Google Mail uses Contextual tools to flag favorites

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009
Printed Page 94
Caption for Figure 4-21

Current text:
Songza uses a multi-level in-context tool menu

Should read:
Songza uses a multi-level contextual tool menu

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009
Printed Page 116
2nd paragraph, last line before tip

Reference to the figure does not seem to be the right one :-)

"the Netfix approach simply creates a bubble effect .... (Figure 5-7, right)"

Should be :

"the Netfix approach simply creates a bubble effect .... (Figure 5-8, center)"

Note from the Author or Editor:
This is a duplicate of the previous one I approved. However, I am on the fence as to whether the correction should say "(Figure 5-8)" or more specifically "(Figure 5-8, center)"

nnicoletis 
Printed Page 116
last paragraph anti pattern -2nd line

Reference to Figure 5.7 for Netflix shoud be Figure 5.8

Note from the Author or Editor:
Current text
(Figure 5-7, right)

New text
(Figure 5-8)

nnicoletis 
Printed Page 125
Caption for Figure 6-2

Current text:
In the original version of My Yahoo!, clicking...

Should read:
In an earlier version of My Yahoo!, clicking...

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009
Printed Page 141
Figure 7-5

The screenshot for the scrollers for PicLens came out way too dark. Can't tell what is illustrated.

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009
Printed Page 158
The magic principle

Current text is :
• Take pictures with a digital camera.
• Sometime later, upload the photos to a photo site like Flickr. This involves:
• Finding the cable.
• Starting iTunes.
• Importing all photos.


Should be "Starting iPhoto" (instead of iTunes)

nnicoletis 
Printed Page 177
Title for second step for Figure 8-20

Current title for second step:
"Secondary page"

Should read
"Final page"

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009
PDF Page 249

37Signals' Backpack product is referred to as "Backpackit" throughout the book.

Pages: 30, 31, 32, 62, 63, 64, , 65, 107, 108, 109, 206, 216, 221, 249, 250, 253, 264, 265, index.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The confusion is the site is actually "backpackit.com" while the product name is "Backpack"

Jennie 
Printed Page 275
3rd line in "Live Preview" paragraph

"We mentioned Jakob Nielson's Error Prevention...."

Should be

"We mentioned Jakob Nielsen's Error Prevention...."


nnicoletis 
Printed Page 305
Index. Under Netflix, 5 sub index

Doalog Overlays, 109 should be collapsed together with "Dialog Overlays, 107". Resulting in:

Dialog Overlays, 107, 109

Bill Scott
Bill Scott
O'Reilly Author 
Jun 2009