Dojo: The Definitive Guide

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Plain text

Indicates menu titles, menu options, menu buttons, and keyboard accelerators (such as Alt and Ctrl).

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, directories, and Unix utilities.

Constant width

Indicates commands, options, switches, variables, attributes, keys, functions, types, classes, namespaces, methods, modules, properties, parameters, values, objects, events, event handlers, XML tags, HTML tags, macros, the contents of files, or the output from commands.

Constant width bold

Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.

Tip

This icon signifies a tip, suggestion, or general note.

Warning

This icon indicates a warning or caution.

Style Conventions

Two additional conventions should also be noted as they relate to effectively communicating the meaning of content:

Qualifying references

Fully qualified namespaces are generally not used when the context is obvious. For example, if a code listing just introduced a dijit.form.Button widget, then the following discussion might opt to simply refer to the widget as Button.

Some terms such as constructor may be used in multiple ways within the same paragraph or context. Whenever this happens, the constant width font is used to differentiate whenever possible. For example, the sentence, "You create a ...