The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
| Printed |
Page 9
1st paragraph |
Change "asynchronous" to "synchronous"
|
Alan Esenther |
Feb 09, 2012 |
| PDF |
Page 16
1st paragraph |
"can go threw jQuery" should be "can go through jQuery"
|
Manno_Bult |
Jun 23, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 16
1st paragraph |
"Must go threw the IO" should be "must go through the IO"
|
Manno_Bult |
Jun 23, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 6
2nd full paragraph |
It says Google Gears was introduced in 1997 (later on it mentions 2007 correctly)
|
Manno_Bult |
Jun 22, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 18
4th paragraph |
In the last sentence of the 4th paragraph (which starts with 'Once the following code is run...', you write '..., but to return a object...', which should be 'an object'.
|
JamieStevens |
Jun 11, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 17
5th paragraph |
The current first sentence is:
'For strings, a large number of methods that can be called to manipulate them'.
The easiest option would just be to omit the 'that':
'For strings, a large number of methods can be called to manipulate them'.
|
JamieStevens |
Jun 11, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 16
5th paragraph |
Misspelled 'inconsistent' as 'inconsitent' in first sentence.
|
JamieStevens |
Jun 11, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 16
3rd paragraph |
The first sentence has the comma one word too late:
'In functional programming iteration, can be handled by recursion.'
would be better as:
'In functional programming, iteration can be handled by recursion.'
|
JamieStevens |
Jun 11, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 11
Second paragraph, examples |
The paragraph mentions a "function statement (Example 2-2)" and a "function expression (Example 2-3)", but the examples themselves are named "Example 2-2 Function declaration" and "Example 2-3 Function statement". Is example 2-2 a function statement or is 2-3? Based on the text, I suspect the example headings are simply mislabeled.
|
Christopher Swingley |
Jun 09, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 6
JavaScript box |
s/Javascript/JavaScript/g
|
Christopher Swingley |
Jun 09, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 6
First full paragraph |
The second sentence ends with Konqueror.. (double period)
|
Christopher Swingley |
Jun 09, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 6
History Of Javascript Box 4th, 5th & 7th paragraphs |
Paragraph 4 last sentence "pleasent" to work in" should be "pleasant to work in".
Paragraph 5 phrase in parentheses "(named for the charecter in
Goastbusters)" should be "(named for the character in
Ghostbusters)".
Paragraph 7 replace "sufferes" with "suffers"
|
Veli Niilus |
Jun 07, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 1
Paragraph 2 |
Should substitute Sir Tim Berners-Lee for Sir Tim Burners-Lee.
|
Veli Niilus |
Jun 07, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 6
3rd paragraph |
In sentence beginning "In 1997 Google realized", I suspect that the year Google released gears should be 2007.
|
Veli Niilus |
Jun 07, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 119
'The Cloud' section |
|
dvjohnston |
May 22, 2011 |
| PDF, Other Digital Version |
Page 113
2nd header |
Author uses "protocall" instead of "protocol". Author also uses "protcall" instead of "protocol" in the paragraph following the header.
Similar errors occur throughout the book.
|
Corey Cole |
May 18, 2011 |
| PDF |
Page 9
|
How much revision of this book will occur before release?
It seems that the content doesn't really live up to the title nor the description. For example, on page 9, the author writes "This chapter is not a full introduction to the power of JavaScript." and goes on to point out several O'Reilly titles that cover JavaScript in depth. The next 16 pages then go on to cover beginner-to-intermediate JavaScript.
Chapter 3 seems pointless: Yes, jQuery is cool. No, there's nothing in the chapter that's HTML5-related. Ditto chapter 4 and ExtJS. Heck, same with chapter 1. It might be interesting in a scholarly treatise on the origins of dynamic web content, but here it looks like filler.
By my reckoning, the first HTML5-related content doesn't appear until chapter 6.
Chapter 10 seems irrelevant as well. Someone buying a book on HTML5 probably doesn't care about one person's prediction of what Internet technology will look like 6 years hence.
In summary, O'Reilly is asking $28 for a book that could probably be replaced with an afternoon's browsing on DZone.
|
Corey Cole |
May 18, 2011 |
| Other Digital Version |
167-80
Figure 1-1 |
The image provided for Figure 1-1 is dark grey on darker grey with no text when viewing the .mobi file on a Kindle DX. The page numbers provided are the Kindle "locations".
Figure 1-12 has a similar issue.
|
Corey Cole |
May 18, 2011 |
| PDF, Other Digital Version |
Page 16
Example 2-7 |
Author uses "itterateAjax" instead of "iterateAjax" and "itterator" instead of "iterator". A similar error occurs on page 27 Example 2-22.
|
Corey Cole |
May 18, 2011 |
| Other Digital Version |
3
Top of page |
Images are mostly black on Amazon Kindle in the mobi version.
|
Henning Eggers |
May 17, 2011 |
| PDF, Other Digital Version |
Page 6
5th paragraph in "The History of JavaScript" box |
|
Henning Eggers |
May 17, 2011 |
