Errata
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.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xii bullet item 2, line 3: "ISO-10262" should read "ISO-16262" |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page xiv 2nd paragraph, last sentence |
Removed the end of the last sentence, which read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page xiii |
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Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 3 para. -2, line 4: "ISO-10262" should read "ISO-16262" |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 3 3rd paragraph under "Versions of JavaScript", |
changed |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 9 top |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 21 |
Lines 3-4 of the first sample script in section 1.8 now reads: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 23 line -3: changed the URL for the Netscape debugger to |
http://developer.netscape.com/software/jsdebug.html |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 23 http://developer.netscape.com/products/jsdebug |
has changed to: |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 29 In the fifth paragraph |
"++ and - postfix operators" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 32 The words "false", "null", and "true" have been added to |
Table 2-1, and removed from Table 2-3. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 35 Added the following to the end of the 2nd paragraph: |
(just before section 3.1.1): |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 35 1st paragraph under 3.1.1 Integer Literals |
Changed the end of the first sentence from: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 37 Table 3-1 |
Changed the meaning for Number.MIN_VALUE to: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 49 A footnote has been added after "For example:", the 3rd line of |
text on this page. It reads: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 75 |
The third example line of code read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 75 |
The 3rd line of code used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 77 Section 5.8, the section now begins |
The bitwise operators require numeric arguments. They internally |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 89 3rd chunk of code |
Added a ; to the end of line 3 to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 94 1st code block |
Added a colon to the end of the third line, so that it reads: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 127 Example after 2nd paragraph, line 7 |
email: homer@simpsons.com |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 135 Figure 8-1 showed value for pi as 3.1459. |
It now reads: 3.14159. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 170 2nd to last paragraph |
Changed the last sentence from: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 177 In the Regular Expression Chapter (Ch. 10), the first example |
read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 178 1st paragraph |
The first sentence was changed to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 190 At the beginning of the second comment block |
Used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 216 1st sentence under section 12.2.2.1, |
Deleted "and Internet Explorer 4", so it now starts "In Navigator 4, ..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 230 Insert a new list item after "moveBy(), moveTo() |
open() |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 241 |
The first line of code read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 244 Code: Line 3 from bottom |
Changed the line from: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 265 next-to-last line |
The "self = null;" line of code was removed and replaced with: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 288 3rd line of code |
did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 313 Example 16-2 |
The lines |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 313 4th line of code |
The code was changed to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 326 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence |
Used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 328 INFO |
Netscape Communicator 4.x has a known bug in that reloading a document does |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 328 Example 17-4, line 10: "this.layer.right" changed to |
"this.layer.top" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 330 Example 17-4, line -7: "this.style.pixelRight" changed to |
"this.style.pixelTop" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 335 first complete paragraph |
"Once the expiration date has past..." |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 335 Last line |
Changed "acme.com" to ".acme.com" |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 390 section 21.6, the e-mail address |
http://developer.netscape.com/software/signedobj/ |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 428 Under Array.join() |
In "Arguments", changed "the empty string" to "a comma" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 449 first code block: |
Change second line to: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 453 First Paragraph |
Removed first three lines of prose ("getTimezoneOffset" and following |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 491 Under eval() |
In "Description," added the following to the end of the |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 509 INFO |
On this page, the author discusses the "form.action" property. I have found |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 512 The "See Also" section of the "Form.onreset" reference section, used |
to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 512 The "See Also" section of the "Form.onsubmit" reference section, used |
to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 544 In the name section of image properties, sentence 2 currently |
read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 563 2nd paragraph under Description of isNaN() |
In the last sentence, changed "isNanN()" to "isNaN()" |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 579 layer.clip.right description |
Under the description for "Layer.clip.right," changed "Layer.right" to |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 606 under Math.atan2() |
Changed from: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 646 |
The line 10 from bottom of page now reads: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 687 next to last line |
Specified /s+/ with a lower-case 's', as in the example on the following |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 689 the Synopsis changed to |
string.substr(start, length) |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 701 Textarea entry under HTML Syntax |
Deleted the code line that read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 |