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

#37124: using Dojo 1.2.3 it appears that "missingMessage" is incorrect and should instead be "invalidMessage" in order to display the correct prompt when doing text validation.

--Phil G

#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

#36501: As was previously pointed out, the listing at the bottom of the page isn't passing valid parameters to "dojo.string.substitute()". Instead of "result" as in the listing, or "oneResult" as in the paragraph after the listing, the simplest fix is just "urls[i]".--David M. Karr

#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

#37129: Using 1.2.3, I can't get the Grid + Yahoo example to work at all. I get "DEPRECATED: dojox.grid.Grid" in the Firebug Console, but it doesn't seem to connect to or attempt to connect to Yahoo to search for the cigar. (I'm using the sample code from the Publisher's site.) Perhaps I'm doing something horribly wrong.--Phil G.

#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

#38766: 289-291: Discussion of baseUrl & registerModulePath():
(1) If baseUrl is changed from where Dojo is, how would Dojo modules be found?
(2) How can one baseUrl serve for both Dojo and the user's own classes which may be in different domains? (3) More specifically, assuming registerModulePath() has to be given a relative path (since the same app is deployed in multiple domains)--relative to the main document root, and assuming Dojo is loaded cross-domain (e.g. from AOL CDN), how can the baseUrl and registerModulePath() path be set to find the user's modules?
(4) Item 3: "if the URL (now guaranteed to be absolute)": this doesn't seem to be the case: what if dojo.baseUrl is itself relative, e.g. "."?
(5) Footnote 6 is unclear: what release had the issue? What is the ticket #? Why was it suspected that this wouldn't be fixed by the time the book was printed? When will it be fixed? (6) Footnote 6: "same-origin issue should always have a relative path": it seems to me this is only true if it's in the same web app; if it's a different web app or even a different web server on the same host, I don't think there's a reasonable way to specify a relative path on filesystem, with all the mapping/protection/etc. issues that may be involved. Therefore the "odd behavior" is an issue.
[By "unclear", I mean I am not able to get the scenario on (3) above to work.]

--Tom Meyer

#36629: In the subsection "Notifications with Toaster" just before section 15.4, two code samples are listed. The first one is indicated to be how to set up a Toaster. The second one is indicated to be the process for simulating a long-running process with buttons. The second code sample is identical to the first code sample, being the code for setting up the toaster. The second code sample should show creating buttons to simulate the long-running process.--David M. Karr

#38483: 16.5 The Alignment Container: BorderContainer

Example contains
...
<div dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" region="center"
style="height:<<region height>>">
Center content Pane content
</div>

But, in the third paragraph following the example, it is stated :

"...The center region must not have dimensions, however. ..."

The statement and the explanation are in conflict.
--Brock

#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