the elements of style 2nd edition

... called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 1919 The book was known on the campus in those days as "the little book," with the stress on the ... columns the true vs the false, the right vs the wrong, the timid vs the bold, the ragged vs the trim From every line there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, ... to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field Rather it proposes

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:08

... word the subject of the sentence will often, as in these examples, determine... bring the flesh and the blood The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the ... center of the rug or the rug was in the center of the room In the lefthand 36 ... construction Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they ... or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... in their entirety Companion Website The Book of JavaScript website (http://www.bookofjavascript.com) contains the code examples from each chapter, archived copies of many of the ... calculates the weight of a fish based on its length Enter the length and type of fish, and the JavaScript calculates the fish’s weight This... browse to http://www.bookofjavascript.com/Chapter ... i p t ! 3 Mousing over one of the five icons below the squares (number,... HTML (including JavaScript) and images for many of the websites discussed in the book xxx I n t r o d

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... Analysis of Figure 2-9 The problem with this script is in Notice the accidental capitalization of the first letter in Hours_per_day This is what causes the script to misbehave Line multiplies the other ... prompt box The text above the box where your visitors will type their name ("What's your name?") is the first string in the prompt function; the text inside the box ("put your name here") is the second ... look at the JavaScript in the body (starting in ), you’ll see how to use the variable the_ name First write the beginning of the heading to the page using normal HTML Then launch into JavaScript

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... sets the left border of the window you’re moving. If you move the left border of the window into the center of the screen, the window will be too far to the right. To get the window to the center ... sun The third parameter is the URL that should open in the new window The function you write will... that finds the name of the page and the length of one of the sides of ... If you want the window in the upper-left corner of the user’s screen, you’d type: window.moveTo(0,0); 78 Chapter 5 The first number is the number of pixels from the left border of the screen

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... create an array of all the image objects on a web page, called images. The same holds true for form elements (the array of form elements is called elements) . In Figure 8-3 (part of the Document ... can see which elements (the boxes with the words array of in them) get automatically created arrays. Figure 8-3: Part of the DOM showing arrays in the document object Each of these arrays is ... This is the nature of the while loop. Every time JavaScript reaches a loop’s closing curly bracket (]), it jumps back to the beginning of the loop (Y) to see whether the test in the parentheses

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... and the links that change the contents of the other two frames The function changeFrames() takes the parameters new_image, the name of the image to swap in the third frame, and new_words, the ... has set a cookie ( ) If the value between the parentheses of the if clause is false or the null string (""), the lines in the body of the if-then statement won’t execute If the string finds a cookie, ... repertoire of frame tricks immensely The JavaScript in Figure 10-4, for example, makes the contents of the right frame change when a visitor mouses over one of the links on the left The pages

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... along the colon. It then loads the first part of the element into the_ property and the second part into the_ value. The first time through the loop, the_ property is "name" and the_ value ... want the node to go at the end of the page, the parent will be the body of the document The appendChild() method will add our new Dynami c HTML 245 node to the end of the ... the end of a page 2 46 Chapter 13 Adding Elements in the Middle of a Page and Removing Elements In the last example, the div was added to the end of the web page, because the

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... contents of the file are deleted Therefore, if you want to edit the contents of a file, you should first read the contents of the file into a variable, then edit the contents of the variable, and then ... the end of the URL we see a question mark, the key name word, an equal sign, and then the URL-legal value of the characters the user entered in the text box Next the request object contacts the ... parameters: the name of the file you want to open and either a "w" if you want to replace the existing contents of that file with new text, or an "a" if you want to add text to the end of the file The

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... to a file The complication arises because the contents of a file are read line by line, and PHP needs to know when it has reached the end of a file so that it can stop reading Luckily, the PHP ... PHP function feof() will tell PHP when it has reached the end of a file This function takes a variable that points to an open file (such as $myFile) and returns TRUE when the end of the file has ... The \n puts a line break into the file, which creates a two-line file in this case If the write is successful, $success will contain the value TRUE; if not, it will contain the value

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... request and then resend the request to see what happens. The fourth line of the window in Figure 18-11 gives you the status of the webserver’s response. Clicking [export] opens a window with the complete ... hours. Use the Date object’s getSeconds() method to get the number of seconds and the fixTime() function to fix the formatting of the seconds. [...]... // if (the_ zone == "newyork") { the_ hours ... in the // if-then statement to see what the if-then statement is checking // If any of the conditions are violated, the script calls up an // alert box explaining the error and then

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... and rounded down otherwise sin() Sine of the number of radians passed as the argument sqrt() Square root of the argument tan() Tangent of the number of radians passed as the argument appName ... Name of a frame or window The frame set provides the name of a frame The name of a window is the. .. within the string for the substring specified by the first parameter The ... the error message, the URL of the document in which the error occurred, and the line of the error Example: function alertError (the_ message,... parameters: the position of

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 09:20

... 12 9 Going Off the Deep End 13 0 Using array.length in Your Loop 13 1 An Incremental Shortcut 13 1 Beware of Infinite Loops 13 1 for Loops 13 2 How AntWeb Checks Off All the Checkboxes ... 13 3 Line-by-Line Analysis of Figure 8 -11 13 3 Creating Your Own Arrays 13 4 Line-by-Line Analysis of Figure 8 -12 13 5 How the Book of JavaScript... Elements 10 9 Reading Information ... 16 3 The Solution 16 4 The Hitch 16 5 The Solution to the Hitch 16 5 Why image_array Is Declared Outside the rotateImage()... Line-by-Line Analysis of Figure 11 -11 210 Summary

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 16:23

... Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seek- ing for Spain a westward passage to the Indies as a set- off against ... step in the development of the subject has been reached. The extent of subdivision will vary with the length of the composition. For example, a short notice of a book or poem might consist of a ... station. A soldier of proved valor, they entrusted him with the defence of the city. A soldier of proved valor, he was entrusted with the defence of the city. Young and inexperienced, the task seemed...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the chances of success. 13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. The paragraph is a convenient ... instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15

... time, notation of 8 titles (of persons), punctuation of 3 titles (of works) 8, 38 together with , subjects joined by 10 tortuous vs. torturous 62 transition sentences of 16-17 transitive ... inverted position of 33 104 For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org the fact that 24 the foreseeable future 59 the truth is 60 then , semicolon ... use of 20 modifier(s) adjectival 12 position of 30-31 most vs. almost 53 myself vs. I 12 names (of firms), comma in 2 names (of persons) in direct address 3 possessive case of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... language. They will hear the beat of new vocabularies, the exciting rhythms of special segments of their society, each speaking a language of its own. All of us come under the spell of these unsettling ... that style is the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style. If you write, you must believe — in the truth and worth of the scrawl, in the ... passages about the power of words and the clear expression of thoughts and feelings. To the nuts and bolts of grammar he added a rhetorical dimension. The editors of this edition have followed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... of simplified spelling and are prepared to take the consequences. In the original edition of The Elements of Style , there was a chapter on spelling. In it, the author had this to say: The ... www.tailieuduhoc.org 8. Avoid the use of qualifiers. Rather, very, little, pretty — these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little ... than to the mood and temper of the author. If the writing is solid and good, the mood and temper of the writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense of the work. Therefore, the first...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... one of us knows he is fallible. Everyone in the community, whether they are a member of the Association or not, is invited to attend. Everyone in the community, whether he is a member of the ... brother anticipated the upturn in the market. My brother expected the upturn in the market. In the second example, the word anticipated is ambiguous. It could mean simply that the brother ... is the use of the plural pronoun with the antecedent anybody, somebody, someone , the intention being either to avoid the awkward he or she or to avoid committing oneself to one or the other....

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... President in 1889. If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the relative comes at the end of the group, unless this would cause ambiguity. The Superintendent of the Chicago Division, ... one of them. Punctuate as indicated below. in the second scene of the third act in III.ii (Better still, simply insert m.ii in parentheses at the proper place in the sentence.) After the...

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