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#46276: JavaScript code in 'Try this example: "privates properties.", var publicField = 'foobar'; should be publicField = 'foobar'; --Klaus Rohe

 P1.0
20-Jan-11
31

#45803: Y.one('#id').append('<p>This gets at top</p>')

is incorrect, it should be:

Y.one('#id').append('<p>This gets at bottom</p>')--Paul Mallet

 P1.0
28-Nov-10
35

#45648: "document.observe('dom:ready', fx)" should read "document.observe('dom:loaded', fx)", correct?--Glen van de Mosselaer

 B2.0
19-Nov-10
98
#45938: The top of the JavaScript Cheat Sheet identifies it as the "Pocket Guide to JavaScript's" cheat sheet rather than the "Pragmatic Guide to Java...more...
 P1.0
09-Dec-10
98
#45939: I was hoping the Guide (or at least the Cheat Sheet) would include a reminder of JavaScript's odd way of defining a new class. Perhaps in a fu...more...
 P1.0
09-Dec-10
102

#45937: Missing space in the first paragraph of section B.2: "grab Firebug at [URL]or from the Mozilla Add-Ons directory" (at the end of the first URL).--Sven Aas

 P1.0
09-Dec-10
112

#45775: Sixth line starting from the bottom:
"load scripts at the bottom of the " and even more [...]

The word 'page' is probably missing. --Arnaud Meuret

 P1.0
26-Nov-10
114

#45776: Last ΒΆ:

Most of use web developers
=>
Most of us web developers--Arnaud Meuret

 P1.0
26-Nov-10
117

#45777: Middle of page:
PDoc (a code inline documentation system)
=>
PDoc (an inline code documentation system) ?--Arnaud Meuret

 P1.0
26-Nov-10
119
#45835: "jQuery is, at the time of this writing, at version 1.4.2." This was already mentioned at the bottom of the previous page: "(The current v...more...
 P1.0
30-Nov-10
1999 rlZta
#48804: Dear Lynne, This meiratal was so helpful! Thanks so much for taking the time to make it available to all of us. And, it came at the per...more...
 P1.0
25-Feb-12