Ajax Design Patterns Unconfirmed Errata

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By
Printed	Page blocked::http://www.ajaxify.com/tutorial/dynamic/tutorial.js	Could you please look in to this? (Chapter one - 1.1. Ajax and the Usable Web) 3rd para footnote; at the expensive of should be at the expense of	Anonymous
Printed	Page 22 4th paragraph / html code	There is no DOCTYPE and there is no closing html </html> element. This is also an issue in downloaded examples.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 23 first dynamic example	The first dynamic example, the one with the "Click Here!" link that displays a bunch of property information about the event that triggered the dynamic display, does not work on IE6.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 26-27 Dynamic Behavior in a Blink example code	There seems to be some code missing. The example isn't very clear and the code as written on these two pages doesn't run. It seems like some "br" html codes were left out or actually interpreted on the published page as line breaks.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 27 code sample at top of page still not correct after reading errata	There is errata for this code, but it doesn't address this. The line: $("sandbox").innerHTML = Clicked at " + new Date() + ". Event: " + ev + "; should be: $("sandbox").innerHTML = "<p>Clicked at " + new Date() + ". Event: " + ev + ". </p><hr />"; if you want it to appear like the screenshot in the book.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 29 php code	On my php5 installation I am required to use <?php to start php start blocks. I "think" this is a php5 convention and since php5 is a requirement you might consider using <?php.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 37 3rd paragraph / javascript code	Missing call after clearTimeout submitTimer = setTimeout(submitWord, 1000);	Anonymous
Printed	Page 80 7nd paragraph	"If absolute, the coordinates are relative to the top-left of the entire document." This is wrong. If positioning is set to absolute, the containing block is set to the nearest ancestor with a positioning other than static.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 80 9th paragraph	<quote>Positioning is set with standard CSS styles: message.style.left = "150px"</quote> should be changed to something like <quote>Positioning is set with standard CSS styles: message.style.positioning = "absolute"</quote>	Anonymous
Printed	Page 90 First code sample	Either the ellipses should be moved to the last line or the function call should be closed with something like , 5000)};	Anonymous
Printed	Page 96 1st code example	The code snippet is missing a couple lines in the setTimeout() call.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 97 Last code example	The code snippet has the wrong content for xhreq.send()	Anonymous
Printed	Page 100 6th paragraph	On page 98/99 it says that the content type header should be "text/xml". Here it says that the content type header should be "text/html". I think this should be clarified. Can it be both or is one statement incorrect?	Anonymous
Printed	Page 100 Description of responseXML property	"Content-Type" header for XML response should be "text/xml" and not "text/html".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 137 2nd code snippet	I believe the line: event = event \|\| window.event; should read: event = ev \|\| window.event; Can you confirm this?	Anonymous
Printed	Page 145 3rd paragraph (7-line code snippet)	the bold line expiryTimer = setTimeout(expiryTimer, 2000); // 2 secs... should probably read expiryTimer = setTimeout(expire, 2000); // 2 secs...	Anonymous
Printed	Page 146 5th paragraph	A common alternative is to loop with setInterval. should probably be A common alternative is to loop with setTimeout. (As can be seen in the fade example on page 36.)	Anonymous
Printed	Page 173 4th paragraph	The sentence beginning "That's not possible" makes little sense.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 285 code example	Now that IE7 supports XMLHttpRequest() directly, it makes no sense to do the "new XMLHttpRequest()" last instead of first.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 286 last paragraph	I think you meant this paragraph to be about version-dependent behavior. It would make much more sense if it does.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 393 code example	document.getElementById("board") should not be done repeatedly within the loop. The line beginning "the last 4 args" should be a comment.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 430 last code example	messageCopy = message.value.replace(/^ /, "") should instead reference messageCopy messageCopy = messageCopy.replace(/^ /, "")	Anonymous
Printed	Page 466 code in middle	frame = Math... should be var frame = Math...	Anonymous
Printed	Page 559 4th paragraph	PHP HTTPClient is a framework for PHP, not for Perl	Anonymous