Errata for Pragmatic Ajax
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#34359: interesting site man --pSghvVRg |
B1.5
06-Sep-08 |
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| back cover |
#25438: In Justin Gehtland's bio, the first sentence has the word "writing" misspelled: "Justin Gehtland has ben writring code..."--Evan A. Zacks |
B1.6
12-Jul-06 |
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#34939: comment4, --FdLSNfjJzFKbysrONt |
B1.1
06-Oct-08 |
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| prezP | WWPJs |
#34941: comment6, --NqpFVZJKgYjoNSAsABG |
B1.6
06-Oct-08 |
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| ceHgQ | mICTg |
#34943: comment1, --UpNQDzGOKptJFfAukc |
B1.5
06-Oct-08 |
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| http: | http: |
#34475: Cindy McCain's battle against prescription drug addiction has been part of her public speaking points for years, but a deeper investigation re...more...
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B1.2
12-Sep-08 |
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| http: | http: |
#34476: Candidates Promise National-Service Initiatives washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103788.html--VQlAtendkMCyG |
B1.1
12-Sep-08 |
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| http: | http: |
#34477: Northern Virginia Voters Chime In washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/09/11/VI2008091102914.html--JVTwBnmNE |
B1.6
12-Sep-08 |
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| http: | http: |
#34484: Federal Judge Limits Access to Cellphone Data washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103292.html--HPfKerySP |
B1.1
12-Sep-08 |
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| http: | http: |
#34485: Has Obama Underestimated McCain? voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/11/misunderestimating_mccain.html--GsFFvkBobnWI |
B1.2
12-Sep-08 |
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| all |
#24520: I hesitate to bring this up, after a slightly testy exchange with Dave Thomas on the same issue relating to his Rails book.
(in the paper ver...more...
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B1.6
22-Apr-06 |
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| 1 |
#24398: I see that you are in favor of Ajax frameworks. On comp.lang.javascript people highly respect Matt Cruse's libraries http://www.ajaxtoolbox.com/--peter michaux |
B1.6
01-Apr-06 |
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#24550: The very last line of the page reads "The browser renders the page as in-memory DOM tree". Instead, it should read "The browser renders the p...more...
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P1.0
28-Apr-06 |
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| 8 |
#24070: In the fifth paragraph on the first page of the acknowledgments, "you're" should be "your".--Daniel Wislocki |
B1.6
07-Feb-06 |
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| 10 | 10 |
#26275: "scientist--Ted Ruegsegger |
P1.0
17-Oct-06 |
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| 10 |
#24519: In the second to last paragraph on page 10, the word "straight-forward" should not be hyphenated.--Andrew Garberoglio |
B1.6
22-Apr-06 |
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| 11 |
#24248: In the 'The Real Rocket Science' sidebar, line 3:
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B1.6
07-Mar-06 |
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#24146: The URL http://www.ajaxian.com/book/ajaxInActionDemo1.html for viewing the Customer Data screen in action is not working. there is a 404 file ...more...
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B1.6
17-Feb-06 |
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#24071: In the last paragraph on the page "your're" should be replaced by "you're".--Daniel Wislocki |
B1.6
07-Feb-06 |
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#25073: Hi, I have noticed that if you change the cursor style for innerDiv, when you click on some areas of the map, you don't see the cursor change....more...
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P1.0
27-May-06 |
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#25074: Why use the -moz-grab proprietary value when you can use the "move" (and more supported) value?--Tommaso Urli |
P1.0
27-May-06 |
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#24147: second last paragraph (right after the JS listing), end of first line. after the word "line" seems to be missing a line number--Oerd Cukalla |
B1.6
17-Feb-06 |
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#25075: In the fourth paragraph, it says:"As with tileSize() ..." but tileSize is a var, not a method, so there's no need for the parenthesis.--Tommaso Urli |
P1.0
27-May-06 |
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#24140: The code in the processMove function has the following two lines of code:
innerDiv.style.top = top + (event.clientY - dragStartTop);
inner...more...
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B1.6
16-Feb-06 |
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#26793: The grey 'outbox' at the top of this page is intuitively in the wrong place.
At this point, you haven't demonstrated how to request the dat...more...
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P1.0
01-Jan-07 |
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#23990: example offered in link (AjaxInAction/screenAjax1.html) doesn't process properly.
City receives "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0...more...
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B1.6
26-Jan-06 |
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#24321: It's good that you recommend declaring javascript variables explicitly with "var." But I think you should make a stronger case for this. I'm...more...
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B1.6
17-Mar-06 |
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#25629: Unnecessary colon after period at the end of the second sentence of paragraph titled 'The Function Type'.
"Functions are in fact a type in ...more...
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P1.0
03-Aug-06 |
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#25631: No space after full stop in first sentence of paragraph 3:
"outerHTML( ) is a different beast.innerHTML( ) detaches any and all existing ch...more...
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P1.0
03-Aug-06 |
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| 78 |
#24042: The "Defining Events Outside of HTML" box is getting it's bottom border cut off--Dave Stevenson |
B1.6
05-Feb-06 |
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| 87 |
#24043: The closing paragraph, section 4.4 Summary the sentence
"After we tackle implementing Google Maps, the next several..."
That makes it so...more...
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B1.6
05-Feb-06 |
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| 88 |
#26807: The outbox at the top of the page should be entitled; 'Uploading a File without a Form!' and not 'Uploading a File without a File!'. |
P1.0
04-Jan-07 |
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| 91 | 82 |
#24339: Toolkit Resources:
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B1.6
21-Mar-06 |
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| 95 |
#24045: The "autocomplete='off'" box seems out of place... maybe should go on the next page instead.--Dave Stevenson |
B1.6
05-Feb-06 |
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| 106 |
#25064: **** <div><h2>New Title</h2></div>
<ul id="mylist">
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
</ul>
<input type="text" id="newval"/...more...
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P1.0
26-May-06 |
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#24019: Top of page says "...Drag And Drop and sorting capapbilities. We’ll examine these in detail in the next chapter."
No mention of either unti...more...
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B1.6
03-Feb-06 |
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| 149 | 153 |
#29562: In the first paragraph after "Firefox DOM Inspector", fourth sentence, you have, "Beneath this are all the elements that compromise the DOM tr...more...
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P1.0
22-Aug-07 |
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| 150 |
#25295: JavasSript should be JavaScript |
P1.0
20-Jun-06 |
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#24069: In the "MochiKit Intepreter" paragraph, "this" is misspelled as "thnis."--Daniel Wislocki |
B1.6
07-Feb-06 |
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| 167 |
#24107: The sentence "However the use of alert() is in this fashion grows quickly tedious..." has an extra "is" in it.--Jeremy Stell-Smith |
B1.6
11-Feb-06 |
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| 169 |
#29893: Second last line of page should read
"If you prefer, you can display the logging statements in a separate pop-up window by passing false to...more...
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P1.0
17-Nov-07 |
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| 171 |
#24148: The section on JavaScript debugging tools is good, but omits Firebug, an amazing DOM/XmlHttpRequest debugger plugin for Firefox. Firebug allow...more...
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B1.6
17-Feb-06 |
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#24020: "...farther and see how easy the integration helpers make some seriously advanced Ajax functionality, like sortable lists and auto-complete fi...more...
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B1.6
03-Feb-06 |
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#28998: See the second full paragraph on page 185:
"Conceptually, the data looks like this:
ADRESSES
DOE, JANE
111 Appian Way
Atlanta
GA
11...more...
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P1.0
10-May-07 |
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| 185 |
#27021: The section titled "Decorating for non-Ajax" seems to start halfway through a sentence: "discusses the way that the Ruby..." |
P1.0
22-Feb-07 |
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#26929: The link to download the source code is broken. Could someone fix it? http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ajax/code/ajax-code.zip--Jeren |
P1.0
02-Feb-07 |
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#26825: 1) I'm wondering if the author forgot the require 'mysql.php' at the top of zipServer.sajax.php. I got it to work by including 'DB.php' and us...more...
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B1.6
11-Jan-07 |
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#26829: No clue on the Rails chapter. Do I need to download and include something? Do I need to configure IIS or Apache to handle rhtml ? Help! |
P1.0
13-Jan-07 |
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| 218 |
#25134: "The view that gets rendered for the previous controller and action would be /app/views/address/edit.rthml"
should be: "/app/views/address/...more...
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P1.0
31-May-06 |
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| 241 |
#26855: The js includes in formDwr.html should be:
not src="/dwr/interface/Validator.js"
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P1.0
17-Jan-07 |
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| 274 |
#24074: The URL:
should be:
:)
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B1.6
07-Feb-06 |
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| 274 |
#24437: much smarter and better connected *than* us--Daniel Choi |
B1.6
11-Apr-06 |
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| 276 |
#24060: Calling Adobe the creator of Flash sounds wrong to me, even though they do own it now after having bought Macromedia. Perhaps this should be r...more...
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B1.6
06-Feb-06 |
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#25200: "dojo.oi 83" should read "dojo.io 83"--Geoff The |
P1.0
08-Jun-06 |