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#32136: HTML on page 19 contains one table, but all subsequent figures 2.2 and 2.3 display two tables.
--john draughn

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#30450: thebungeebook.net looks for a local link--Arun S Rajagopalan

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#32248: In the syntax block that shows the definition for multiple elements, what is shown is $(ID|element...) -> [ extendedElement, ...] But I...more...
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#30516: On the for() code snippet for (var index = 0, l = array.length; index < l; ++index) // etc It would be advisable to change <em>l</em> to...more...
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#31112: 'Vowels are bad for you' .gsub(/[aeiouy]/, '-') // -> 'V-w-ls -r- b-d f-r ---' Please note that Y is a consonant when it comes at the begi...more...
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#30509: Unusual page break after only 4 lines of text.

Text on next page begins: "Or you may just want to evaluate the scripts in an HTML fragment: "--Robert Rainthorpe

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#30154: If 'hello'.length is 5, how can 'is'.length be 3?--Daniel Ashton

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#30155: English grammar: "say you got only one" should be either "say you have only one" or "say you've got only one."--Daniel Ashton

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#31217: The ruby code for example search does not work on MAC OS (I tried it on Linux just fine). Maybe the method "get_search_results()" which search...more...
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#32241: the correct name for the option in the Effect.Highlight is restorecolor and not revertcolor--Sergio Pereira

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#31867: There isn't revertcolor option in Effect.Highlihght There are 3 color options (startcolor, endcolor, restorecolor) I guess revertcolor is ...more...
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#31557: In chapter 15 that talks about Draggables, the text talking about the "delay" option says that the value is in "seconds", despite the preceedi...more...
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#30505: The whole scriptaculous chapter is completely different to the downloadable code. For instance the advanced page and ajax page contain only 1 ...more...
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#32401: The downloadable code for this book has a comment at the top of scriptaculous/autocomplete/advanced/suggestions.rhtml that does not appear in ...more...
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#31990: Builder shorthand methods (perhaps all builder create methods too) require the second arg to be an array of elements and not the element itsel...more...
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