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Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
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Page 83
getCookie and deleteCookie functions |
Example 3-2 is supposed to highlight differences from Recipe 1.10 but not all differences are highlighted.
The "this" keyword is added in the getCookie function:
return this.getCookieVal(j);
The "this" keyword is added in the deleteCookie function:
if (this.getCookie(name)) {
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Anonymous |
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Page 92
Last Code Segment function myFuncA() |
Is it correct to define the nested function as
function.myFuncB() ?
Shouldn't it be
function myFuncB()?
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Anonymous |
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Page 92
Last Code Segment function myFuncA() |
Is it correct to define the nested function as
function.myFuncB() ?
Shouldn't it be
function myFuncB()?
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Anonymous |
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Page 211
near bootom of page |
Example 8-3 P209-212 page 211 near bottom of page, the code references a perl script I can't find anywhere. <form method="GET" action="cgi-bin/register.pl" .....>
Help
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Robert Grant |
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Page 219
Code in Discussion |
The markup is not legal XHTML. It uses
<p>
<input />
<input />
<div>
</p> <!-- Error -->
<p>
...
</p>
<p>
...
</p>
</div>
</p>
As there are more </p> than <p> in the example, it likely is added by mistake, and should be removed
altogether.
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Anonymous |
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Page 239
the top of the page |
This might be a picky one. Howevevr ...
In the function "removeEvent", the second clause of the "if" clause is checking if there is "elem.attachEvent".
To be exact, I thought that should have been checking if there is "elem.detachEvent".
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Anonymous |
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Page 239
the top of the page |
This might be a picky one. Howevevr ...
In the function "removeEvent", the second clause of the "if" clause is checking if there is "elem.attachEvent".
To be exact, I thought that should have been checking if there is "elem.detachEvent".
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Anonymous |
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Page 405
final function within Example 13-1 (DHTML3API.js) |
The DHTML3API.js function labeled "getInsideWindowHeight" contains flow control which is inconsistent
with API as a whole and fails to produce the desired result when processed by the IE6. In the following
reproduction I have highlighted the erroneous clause with '*>'
================================== *incorrect*
// Return the available contetn height space in browser window
getInsideWindowHeight : function () {
if (window.innerHeight) {
return window.innerHeight;
*> } else {
*> if (document.body.clientHeight != document.body.parentNode.clientHeight) {
*> // measure the html element's clientHeight
*> return document.body.parentNode.clientHeight;
*> } else {
*> return document.body.clientHeight;
*> }
}
return null;
}
=============================================*
When compared with a sister reference authored by Danny Goodman, "Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference,
Third Edition" (isbn 0-596-52740-3), which includes the same API labeled DHTMLapi3.js, the consistent and
correct flow control for this function can be found...
==================================== *correct*
// Return the available content height space in browser window
getInsideWindowHeight : function () {
if (window.innerHeight) {
return window.innerHeight;
} else if (this.browserClass.isIECSSCompat) {
// measure the html element's clientHeight
return document.body.parentElement.clientHeight;
} else if (document.body && document.body.clientHeight) {
return document.body.clientHeight;
}
return null;
}
=============================================*
As a side note, both publications include inconsistent terminators within the DHTMLAPI.init() function.
They work, but could cause some confusion; especially in light of DHTMLAPI object's short-cut syntax.
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Anonymous |
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Page 411
Javascript solution, 13.6.2 Code |
the last two lines of the javascript are missing the - such that they mean something else and don't work
correctly:
posElem.style.left = offsetLeft + parseInt(baseElem.offsetWidth/2)
parseInt(posElem.offsetWidth/2) + "px"
posElem.style.top = offsetTop + parseInt(baseElem.offsetHeight/2)
parseInt(posElem.offsetHeight/2)+ "px"
each of these are missing the - sfter /2) and sould read instead
posElem.style.left = offsetLeft + parseInt(baseElem.offsetWidth/2) -
parseInt(posElem.offsetWidth/2) + "px"
posElem.style.top = offsetTop + parseInt(baseElem.offsetHeight/2) -
parseInt(posElem.offsetHeight/2)+ "px"
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Anonymous |
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Page 441-442
Entire Example |
The example does not work.
I retyped the example from the book, correcting the stray closing brace on page 442 and the example
didn't work.
I then downloaded the code from the website, removed the error-producing dots in the middle (why not a
comment set off from the rest of the code or a note in the text of the book) and still saw... nothing.
Firefox 2.0.3/Mac OS X
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Anonymous |
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Page 503
Bottom code example |
An earlier example used quotes, it expands to show pictures.
It shows this code:
var imgLinks = new Array();
imgLinks[imgLinks.length] = {src:"images/prods/x25.jpg", url="products/x25.html", alt="X25 Super
Widget"};
...
function getRandomImage(imgElemID) {
var currIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * (quotes.length));
...
The last line should be
var currIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * (imgLinks.length));
Also, the declaration of imgLinks element is wrong: src:"" and url="" cannot both be right: Recipe 3.8
suggests it's src:"".
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Anonymous |
