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#34112: When the email input is introduced, it makes it seem as if it is an old friend that was already there. But none of the html code mentions it ...more...
 P1.0
18-Aug-08
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#32340: <div class="formContainer" dojoType="dijit.layout.TabContainer" style="width:600px;height:600px"> styles for width and height are already...more...
 B5.0
10-Jun-08
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#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 ...more...
 P1.0
03-Sep-08
37
#33215: Last code snippet on the page: variable 'result' is not defined, and then the subsequent paragraph (p38) refers to oneResult, which is also no...more...
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26-Jul-08
38

#32561: top p. 38 'oneResult' does not seem to match up with preceding bottom page 37:
dojo.string.substitute("<a href='${url}'>${title}</a>", result);
--celeste morte

 P1.0
01-Jul-08
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#34344: 4th line from bottom: remove '</script>' as the previous script tag closes with /> --Anthon van der Neut

 P1.0
05-Sep-08
78

#32382: In line

<script type="text/javascript" src="/dojoroot/dojo/dojo.js" /></script>

remove the redundant end tag.--Thilo Goetz

 B5.0
13-Jun-08
78
#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 un...more...
 P1.0
01-Aug-08
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#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...more...
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01-Aug-08
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#34119: This isn't really a typo -- it's a production error that should have been caught by the Q/A process. In figure 6.2 there are several incomp...more...
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19-Aug-08
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#32469: eventobj.stopPropagation(); should be eventObj.stopPropagation();
in all examples.
. --Michael Jaekel

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25-Jun-08
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#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 pr...more...
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18-Sep-08
187

#34346: In the description of figure 8.3: 'comma-filtered' should read 'comment-filtered'--Anthon van der Neut

 P1.0
05-Sep-08
191

#33356: In the code snippet, the parameter 'synch: true' is given. According to all the text preceding, this should be 'sync: true'.--Michael Bannister

 P1.0
29-Jul-08
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#33355: The paragraph beginning 'When this code is evaluated...' does not match what the code in function example15() (on p195) actually does. There ...more...
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29-Jul-08
207

#33360: In the code for function example21(), the key 'synch' in the args for dojo.xhrPut() should be 'sync'.--Michael Bannister

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29-Jul-08
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#32552: Both versions of genetox_def.html on this page seem identical but the text would indicate that the second version should have something additi...more...
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30-Jun-08
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#32558: The filtering select example can't work as shown. With the searchAttr="docno", it recognizes only the document numbers as input (and only aut...more...
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30-Jun-08
398

#34633: in the code sample, there's a closing tag (</script>)
without an opening <script> tag or body. Looks like you're missing a line or two.--Keith

 P1.0
25-Sep-08
414

#34345: 2nd bullet item on the page: 'pattern specifies ...' should be
'datePattern specifies ...'. In the example on page 415 this is correct.--Anthon van der Neut

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05-Sep-08
482

#33170: The web address for Vista Information Technologies in the footnote should be www.vista-info-tech.com.--Rawld Gill

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24-Jul-08
490

#33013: At the end of the page (5 lines from the end) it mentions the "obe.man" module and should be "obe.main"--Emilio Suarez

 P1.0
10-Jul-08
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#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.h...more...
 P1.0
10-Jul-08