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It’s always exciting to receive a box on my doorstep with the first copy of a book.  Rather than wait for the publisher to send the promotional copies I usually spring for a copy of the book from Amazon or B&N.  This time it’s the second edition of JavaScript Step by Step that arrived just yesterday.

And today the first errata arrived for the second edition.  It appears that somewhere between the first pass and the final pass of quality assurance, a sentence got moved.  Then in the final printed edition, the sentence got chopped, leaving half a sentence in the wrong place.  Sheer madness.

On page 204, there’s a Note (called a readeraid in the Microsoft Press/O’Reilly template).  In that note, the last sentence, or partial sentence, reads, “DOM Level 0 is also known”.  In reality, that sentence goes in the following paragraph and should read “DOM Level 0 is also known as the legacy DOM.”

It’s arguably a throw-away sentence and the book still makes sense without that sentence too.

If you spot additional errata for the second edition I encourage you to head over to the book’s web site, http://www.javascriptstepbystep.com and file it.  Those errata come directly to me and get investigated promptly.

I hope JavaScript Step by Step, Second Edition is enjoyed as much as the first edition.  It was a fun book to revise and improve.