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Page 81 in the textbook shows the first line of text as aligned right in the web page. However, when I go to your site and open the same document the first line of text appears as left justified, which is also happening to my web page.
I used the CSS to align my text to the right:
SPAN.lastmod{font-size:9pt; text-align:right}
I know the style class works O.K. because the text displays as font-size equals 9 pts.
The property text-align and value of right works fine in the other style class.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. The results I got for the first line appears the same as the document at your website for Figure 4.12, yet on page 81 in the textbook the text is right justified. How can that be??
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Hi Craig,
I was just examining your HTML and JavaScript book for possible adoption
in my Multimedia on the Web course next term and I noticed a typo on
page xi. It states "Lesson 9 explores the nature of JavaScript and its
roll . . ." Probably not worth an email to you, but I just thought you
might want to change it for your next edition!
Jane Ritter
CIS Department
University of Oregon
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Well, we have finished Chapter 8 and are about to have the first big test
tomorrow. Having reached this milestone, I thought I would give you a
summary of the errors cataloged so far. I have been giving the students
"bounty points" for finding errors, so they are really going over it with
a microscope. We continue to enjoy your unforgivable style of humor. (It
is much like mine.) Here goes:
Chapter 1.
I don't believe the URL for the website is revealed anywhere in the book.
No errors noted in chapter.
Chapter 2.
The dialog box that we get with WS_FTP on IBM-compatible machines is
somewhat different from Figure 2.11b. Ours has blanks at the bottom to
fill in the remote host directory and the local machine directory. No
errors noted in chapter.
Chapter 3.
Section 3.4 should be titled "Vertical Space."
Chapter 4.
P. 70 Paragraph #3 should start "Well, if," not "Well, it."
P. 71 TEXT="#FFFFFF" instead of "#000000"
Figure 4.8 An extra in Line 12. Some students found other
problems in this figure, but I failed to mark them.
Figure 4.10 should be after (This is a big one.)
Figure 4.12 Line 7 need spaces before the semi-colon, and remove
semi-colon at end before }
There probably needs to be something said about ALIGN versus VALIGN. Top
me this is an error in the way HTML is defined, since it is inconsistent.
Apparently, you can say ALIGN="middle" when dealing with text and images,
but it has to be VALGIN="middle" in a table. Is that right?
Chapter 5.
Page 94, next to last line. MS WORD did a number on you and turned your
quotes around. No big deal.
P. 99, Figure 5.10 The file titled "C" is not identified.
Chapter 6.
One of my eagle-eyes caught this one:
P. 129. He says that if you put HREF="" into the tag, it will cause
the mouse pointer to turn into a hand over the entire image map, not just
the clickable parts of the image map. He says that the proper way is to
leave the HREF out of the tag. He offered to send you this info in an
e-mail, but I wasn't sure you wanted to be getting e-mails from students
in other schools, so I told him I would tell you. His name is Jeff
Schmidt. E-mail address is if you want to discuss
it with him. Jeff is one of my lab instructors and he is pretty sharp on
this stuff. His website: http://www.smu.edu/~jschmidt
Chapter 7.
Page 139, middle of page. ...creates and unordered list (not and ordered
list).
Figure 7.3 You have TYPE="I" redundantly in the last list.
Figure 7.6 Two tag closures missing.
Figure 7.7 Four tag closures should be closures.
Figure 7.16 COLDSPAN shoud be COLSPAN. Insert space between TD and
ROWSPAN instead of
Chapter 8.
Page 164. 7 lines from bottom. There appears to be a > missing after
"_parent"
Figure 8.9 instead of