Errata
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.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Printed | Page 40-41 Between the bottom of page 40 and the top of page 41 |
Between pages 40 and 41, there is an unmatched pair of ". |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 44 1st paragraph, 2nd line |
The example referred to has the pack property set to "center", not to "end" as mentioned in the text. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 55 Code example, top of page |
First two lines of the .xul file should read: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 55 Top of code listing |
The window.onload example will not work with Firefox 2.0 as written. The 'testStyles.css' file has not |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 72 Section 3.4.2.3. The DOM Inspector |
DOMi DOM inspector is not installed by default on Firefox 2.0. See |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 79 last paragraph |
This isn't really an error, but you talk about putting the manifest file in the chrome directory. I got burned because there is more than one chrome directory! There is the application's chrome directory, but there is also a chrome directory in each profile. Putting a manifest file in the profile/chrome/ directory does not work (at least for me on MacOSX). One of those "mantrap" icons would be really helpful here! |
Robert P. Goldman | Jan 04, 2010 |
Printed | Page 85-87 Anywhere |
There should be some mention here of the cross-domain limitations of using an XMLHttpRequest object. Perhaps even pointing the user to https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTTP_Access_Control or a similar resource could save some headaches. Or just place this at the top of doCommand.php: |
Paul Osman | Oct 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 105 Bottom |
The name of the stylesheet being used has changed in the source code listing from "testStyles.css" to |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 314 2nd paragraph (of text) |
The 2nd ACTUAL paragraph (3rd if you include the code fragment) reads: |
Anonymous |