Errata for Mastering Dojo

#35944: I didn't see info on where to install the book's sample code, and it turns out to matter. Basically, the book's tree of source code assumes it's installed at /dojobook (so /dojobook/form_controls/ etc). Also, as page 15 notes, the dojo tree itself installed at /dojoroot (so /dojoroot/dojo, /dojoroot/dijit, /dojoroot/dojox).
This layout is needed so that statements in the book's source find needed files, notably:
dojo.registerModulePath("dojobook","../../dojobook");
... which apparently registers a path to dojobook relative to /dojoroot/dojo, not relative to the source, which might not be obvious.
(Not clear to me why registering a relative path is preferable to an absolute path in this case.)--Graham Wideman

#35297: attribute 'missingMessage' is not used by any form js code, only 'invalidMessage' and 'rangeMessage'. (It's defined in the nls files, but not used!)
Also, attribute 'length' should actually be 'maxLength'.--Tom Shinnick

#34333: The last name input field erroneously assumes that words in someones last name should be propercased. However that is not true for many names (e.g. with the last names between --: Werner -von Braun-, Marquise -de Sade-). The propercasing might be ok for some countries, but the form has a country field so things should be globally useable. --Anthon van der Neut

#35466: The last for loop on that page says:
listItem.innerHTML = dojo.string.substitute("<a href='${url}'>${title}</a>", result);

I believe "result" should be urls[i] instead.--Filipp Lepalaan

#33437: In the "dojo.hitch is important" sidebar, it says "JavaScript functions are not bound to the scope in which they're defined." But this is untrue, with one exception. JavaScript does lexically bind function definitions to the context in which they are defined. It is *only* the 'this' variable that behaves specially and promiscuously compared to all other variables.

The reason hitch works at all is because it makes use of JavaScript's lexical binding in defining the function that is returned.
--Daniel LaLiberte

#33436: "dojo.isString(test) ... either a string literal or a string variable." But variables don't have types, so there is no such thing as a string variable. And whether the argument expression contains just a variable is irrelevant to the value that dojo.isString sees. I believe what is intended instead of "string variable" is "string object", as in the result of new String().
--Daniel LaLiberte

#34537: The 14 line of HTML code in this page says:"Events that can bubble always bubble; events never propagate."
I think the "events never never propagate" is not correct because bubble is propagation.--SunLiwei

#32552: Both versions of genetox_def.html on this page seem identical but the text would indicate that the second version should have something additional compared to the first--Scott Dixon

#32558: The filtering select example can't work as shown. With the searchAttr="docno", it recognizes only the document numbers as input (and only autocompletes based on numbers not substance names). This example is badly in need of proofreading and testing. As presented, if you select a substance name, it fills in the docno in the text box. If you type in a substance name from the select list, it doesn't recognize it.--Scott Dixon

#35927: Error when using dijit.layout.BorderContainer and dijit.layout.ContentPane and dojo version 1.2.1.

In the code it says:
Line 46: var appContainer = main.appContainer = new dijit.layout.BorderContainer({
//....
/ ....
Line 61: appContainer.layout();

Using appContainer.layout(); throws a Javascript error. For me the error was "PE undefined". The solution was to use: appContainer.startup(); instead.
--Kokopelli

#33011: At the end of the section 18.2 (Step 1), the instructions say to start the local HTTP server and navigate to obe.htm, but it should say main.htm instead.
--Emilio Suarez