HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy The following changes were made in the 8/01 reprint: Here's the key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification {46} Paragraph 5; First sentence: "between 0 and 255" was deleted. The text now reads: ...and a decimal value corresponding to the entity's position... (50) 3.6.1.2., The lang attribute: "Hindu" has been changed to "Hindi". {55} "": ONBLUE and ONFOCUS were added to the list of attributes. {58} 3rd paragraph; The second example time has been changed from "1998-02-22T19:26-05:00" to "1998-02-22T09:26-05:00" [63] 1st paragraph, right below the box; ", although no browser currently supports this value" was removed from the sentence. The text now reads: ...to align both the left and right margins of the text. {63} section 4.1.1.2: "and deprecated in the current standards" has been removed from the sentence. The text now reads: Supported only by Internet Explorer, the nowrap attribute suppresses... {103} In the
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illustration, LANG and DIR have been added to the list of attributes. {123} final paragraph, 2nd sentence; "big squares" has been changed to "big rectangles". (152) The first paragraph in Section 5.2.7.2 now starts with: "Normally, Internet Explorer plays a movie inside a framed viewport once, without any visible user controls. Although no longer supported with Internet Explorer version 5 or later, with older versions of the browser the user may restart..." The Figure 5-20 caption now reads: "The controls attribute added video playback controls to inline movies." (182) 4th paragraph; The last sentence of the paragraph (beginning with "Do notice...") has been removed. {208} In the illustration, DIR has been added to the list of attributes. (215) Last paragraph; "allow the" has been replaced with "allow the deprecated". The text now reads: ...standards only allow the deprecated tag to be placed... {219} 4th paragraph; second sentence: "The browser actually forms" was changed to: "The browser should (but doesn't always) form". (235) 7.3.1.1, 3rd paragraph: In the reference to Figure 7-4 on next page "as rendered by Netscape" has been changed to "as rendered by Internet Explorer". (240) 1st paragraph; "tags between them" was changed to "tags at the end of their content". (240) end of 1st paragraph: The extraneous period at the end of the paragraph was removed. [253] Bottom; In the last line of the code example, the ":" after "body" was removed. (257) 2nd paragraph; "previous example" was changed to "example in section 8.1.2" (260) 4th paragraph; "capital letters... ...innermost level:" was changed to: "upper-case Roman numerals for the outer level, capital letters for the next level, Arabic numerals for the next, and lower-case letters for the innermost level:" [269] Section 8.4.1.2., second paragraph; The text used to read: ...em, which is the height of m in the current font... It was changed to: ...em, which is the width of m in the current font... [283] Example at the top of the page; Two commas were inserted. The code example now reads: a:visited, a:link, a:active {text-decoration: underline overline} {306}
illustration: The icon after "NAME" was removed. {335} In the illustration, "ONSELECT" was removed from the list of attributes. (348) last paragraph; The text used to read: "The align attributes in the table cells force the labels to the left and the elements to the right" It was changed to: "The align attributes in the table cells force the labels to the right and the elements to the left" {359} : The "N" icon was added to the "BACKGROUND" attribute. (360) 10.2.1.2, 3rd paragraph: The text used to read: The background attribute, a nonstandard extension supported by Internet Explorer,... It was changed to: The background attribute, a nonstandard extension supported by the popular browsers,... {368} Table 10-1; The "a" footnote was removed from the "justify" entries in the table. {370} tag (before "Females under 18") was deleted. {393} : "ONBLUR" and "ONFOCUS" were removed from the list of attributes. (402) 5th paragraph: "With Netscape only,..." was changed to: "With the popular browsers,..." {420} 12.2.1.7., 1st paragraph: "or a percentage of the display" was removed from the text. The last sentece of the paragraph now reads: The value for each of these dimension attributes should be an actual number of pixels. {425} code example following 3rd paragraph: The code used to read: valuetype="url" It was changed to: valuetype="ref" {428} 12.2.3.7.: "or as a percentage of the containing element" was removed from the text. The last sentence now reads: They all accept avlues indicating the size of the region in pixels. [432] tag summary box; The end tag section used to read: None It has been changed to: ; never omitted {437} Table 12-1, onBlur: The asterisks after "" and "" were removed. {438} Table 12-1, onFocus: The asterisks after "" and "" were removed. (449) mini-TOC and 13.1 header: "Dynamiic" was changed to: "Dynamic". (459) 1st paragraph; ", or after completing 60 cycles (about five minutes)" was removed from the text. The last sentence now reads: The update continues until the browser breaks the connection by moving on to another document. {503} Code; The third line of code used to read: 27513-1234 There are actually ten characters (with the hyphen), not nine. The line has been changed to: 27513-1234 {511} section 16.2.3, code: The code used to read: " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd " The spaces inside the double quotes were unnecessary and have been removed. The code now reads: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" ?522? last paragraph: "Designing for the Web" is out-of-print. It was replaced with "Web Design in a Nutshell." {525} code example; The 5th line used to read:
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