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 15 Last paragraph |
"We think the following three web sites..." |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 15 Removed |
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www.html |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 33 |
Did read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 56 |
In section 3.8.1.2, at the last bullet, the second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 56 Replaced "the local time zone of the system on which you are |
preparing the document" with "Greenwich Mean Time" along with |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 56 Replaced "Eastern Standard Time (that's where we authors live). |
Or, in UTC format" with "To specify Eastern Standard Time" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 66 Figure 4-2, under "Stretched to the limit." added the following line |
"Left is the default." |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 66 Deleted sentence beginning "Also notice that..." Replace |
"Notwithstanding" in the next sentence with "Note that". |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 66 |
Did read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 73 |
now reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 104 |
Section 4.7.5.3, line 1 changed to read: |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 142 Section 5.2.6.8, para. 1, removed sentences 2 and 3 ("You can |
change the thickness..." and " The value of...") and replace them with: |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 180 The fourth paragraph did read "It is possible emulate...". |
It now reads "It is possible to emulate...". |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 226 In the imagemap sample file, replaced "circle" with "circ", |
"rectangle" with "rect" and "polygon" with "poly". |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 231 In sample <map> tag, replaced "shape=circle" with "shape=circ" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 232 |
Section 7.5.4.6 did read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 273 |
Did read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 276 Replaced "browser loads" with "browser should load" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 276 Replaced "browser will prompt" with "browser should prompt" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 281 code sample, line -1: "<style>" now reads "</style>" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 282 |
section 9.2.4.2, the last sentence of the section now reads: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 301 Replaced "These practice" with "This practice" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 302 Last bullet |
"If more than two properties are set to auto, and (if) one of them is |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 305 |
3rd paragraph of 9.3.6.5, last sentence now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 313 |
The last sentence of the section 9.3.8.1 now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 315 9.5.1, first paragraph |
Removed second sentence and merged para 1 with para 2. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 357 In the "<label>" box, under "Contains" |
form_contents |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 358 para. 1, line 1: add "the" between "Use" and "<fieldset>" |
"Use <fieldset> tag..." should read "Use the <fieldset> tag..." |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 382 |
The "Baseline" line now reads: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 382 |
Paragraph 2-4 used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 431 code sample 1, line 2: "</applet>" now reads "</object>" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 448 At end of para, replaced "by the server" with "by a properly |
configured server" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 449 Last paragraph of 13.3.2, last sentence |
removed the phrase "... within the <noframes> tag" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 451 13.3.3.3, line 2 |
"onKeyRelease" now reads "onKeyUp" (as on line 4) |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 469 removed the hyphen from the header |
"The Multipart/Mixed-Media..." |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 470 removed the same hyphen in the header |
"Multipart Mixed-Replace-Media..." |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 475 In footnote replaced "A minority of web surfers use Internet Explorer, |
so you rarely and thankfully won't" with "Internet Explorer is just as |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 483 In sample HTML, Replaced "Early in the history of man" with "For |
instance, early in the history of man" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 487 In sample HTML, replaced "-->" with "//-->" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 494 In the rule for content_style, deletde the second instance of kbd_tag |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 497 |
The fourth line in the left column used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 497 Replaced "<form>" with "<label>" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 497 Replaced "form_content" with "label_content" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 505 In the tabindex attribute of <area>, replaced "anchor inthe" with |
"area in the" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 507 In onblur attribute of <button>, replaced "into" with "out of"; in |
onfocus attribute, replace "out of" with "into" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 513 In class attribute of <iframe>, replaced "rule" with "frame" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 519 "Disable" attribute of <input type=submit> is now "disabled" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 522 In hreflang attribute of <link>, "url" is now "language" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 539 "vertical-align" entry, 2nd column |
"baseline" should not be italicized |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 558 In Appendix E, deleted the accent over the "e" in Grave. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 558 In Appendix E, added text to Numeric Entity ‚ |
Low left single quote |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 558 Also Appendix E, changed line „: changed quotes to two commas, and |
text to read: "Low left double quote" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 559 In Appendix E, added text and symbol to line Š: "Capital S, caron" |
and symbol. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 559 In Appendix E, added a new listing, Ž, reading: "Capital Z, caron" |
and symbol. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 559 In Appendix E, added text and symbol to line š: "Small s, caron" |
and symbol. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 559 In Appendix E, added a new listing, ž, reading: "Small z, caron" |
and symbol. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 559 Replaced the symbol for line ¦ with a broken vertical bar (previous |
symbol was not broken). |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 560 Changed the symbol for line ­ to a hyphen. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 560 Added a "plus or minus" symbol to line ±. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 561 Added a new Y symbol with accent to line Ý. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 561 Added a new thorn symbol to line Þ. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 562 Added a new eth symbol to line ð. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 562 |
(562) Added a new snall thorn on line þ. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 |