Hacking eBay  This week we're showcasing excerpts from the recently released eBay Hacks. These three hacks have a common thread--they all deal in some manner with hacking the view of eBay from your browser. In these sample hacks, learn how to tap into eBay's massive database right from your own address bar; how to use Cascading Style Sheets to change the look of your eBay page; and how to control the view of other eBayers' pages with your own browser.  [Web DevCenter]

Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application  Flash Remoting has not changed much for the release of Flash MX 2004, which is good news for programmers building complex Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Flash Remoting still offers the most flexible, intuitive way to add an application server to your RIA. Tom Muck, author of O'Reilly's upcoming Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide, offers ten tips for building a Flash Remoting application that will help programmers deliver the most efficient RIA possible.  [Web DevCenter]

Selling with eBay's New Auction Page  In July 2003, eBay completely redesigned its standard auction page, the page that shows the details of any particular sale item. For sellers, these changes may have repercussions that ultimately affect their bottom line. In this article, David Karp, author of eBay Hacks, discusses several approaches eBayers can implement right away to help them communicate more effectively to customers about their auctions, and bring in the cash.  [Web DevCenter]

Hacking Amazon, Part 2  Paul Bausch, author of Amazon Hacks, is back this week with more hand-selected hacks from his book. Learn how to list your Amazon items for sale on your own web site, and how to create a wireless wish list.  [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML  For some reason, IE for Windows has been missing the handy feature that allows web form fillers to type in select element choices. In this bonus recipe you won't find in his JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, author Danny Goodman provides a solution and example code to fill the gap, giving your form fillers a more uniform experience across browsers.  [Web DevCenter]

Hacking Amazon  O'Reilly's Amazon Hacks recently released, so we asked author Paul Bausch to select some hacks from the book to highlight here. Find out how to search Amazon from any web page in IE, and how to create Amazon Associate links on your Movable Type weblog. And check back to this space next week for hacks on listing your Amazon items for sale on your own web site, and on creating a wireless wish list.  [Web DevCenter]

An Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript, Part 2  Learning to create your own custom classes in ActionScript can really propel your efficiency to another level. In this second part of a two-part series, Joey Lott, author of ActionScript Cookbook, offers the whys and hows of basic OOP with ActionScript.  [ Web DevCenter]

Features
Why Choose RSS 1.0?  Part of RSS 1.0's value is in retaining its roots as primarily a metadata specification. A journal publisher explains why they chose RSS 1.0 as the basis for distributing RSS feeds of their publications.   [XML.com]

Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript, Part 1  One of the greatest stumbling blocks in learning object-oriented programming is the inherent abstractness. Enter the simplicity of Flash and ActionScript. Joey Lott, author of ActionScript Cookbook, offers an introduction to basic OOP with ActionScript.  [Web DevCenter]

Adding Movies to Your Web Page  If you've just started out creating your own Web pages, chances are you've asked yourself, "How did they get that little movie to play right on their page." In this excerpt from Learning Web Design, 2nd Edition, Jennifer Niederst offers advice on creating good video for web sites.   [Web DevCenter]

Super-Efficient Image Rollovers  Problem: You want to reduce the number of individual image files downloaded to the browser to accomplish three-state image rollovers. Answer: Well, Danny Goodman has it in this bonus recipe you won't even find in his latest book, JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook. Read on for all the skinny.   [Web DevCenter]

Features
CSS 3 Selectors  The CSS 3 Selectors specification has recently become a W3C Recommendation. Russell Dyer charts the development of CSS selectors, and explains which new features are introduced in CSS 3.   [XML.com]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML, Part 6  In our sixth and final sample recipe from Danny Goodman's JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, learn how to locate the pixel coordinates of a nonpositioned element that the browser has placed during normal page flow. And if you've enjoyed sampling these recipes, check back here in two weeks; we'll be publishing a bonus recipe Danny has written that you won't find in his book.   [Web DevCenter]

A Study in Flash Form Submission  The release of Flash MX's Flash UI components made the Flash form creation process easier. But form submission is still trickier in Flash than it is in HTML. In HTML, forms can be submitted via a submit button or via the Enter key. Flash does not have built-in support for Enter-key form submission; thus, Colin Moock, author of ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, explains how to handle the Enter key manually.   [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML, Part 5  In this week's sample recipe from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, learn how to read effective style sheet property values. Once you've assigned a value to a property of an element's style object, the value can be read subsequently through the style property.   [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML, Part 4  In this week's sample recipe from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, you'll find a quick and simple solution to importing browser- or operating system-specific style sheets. And check back to this space next week for a recipe on reading effective style sheet property values.   [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML, Part 3  In this week's sample recipe from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, learn how to detect object property and method support. And check back here next week for a sample recipe on importing browser- or operating system-specific style sheets.   [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML, Part 2  In this week's sample recipe excerpted from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, learn how to simulate a hash table for fast array lookup. And check back to this space next week for a recipe on detecting object property and method support.   [Web DevCenter]

Why Try to Out-Google Google?  If Google has been successful, Tara Calishain says, initially at least, it had nothing to do with actual technology. Tara, coauthor of the best-selling Google Hacks, looks at what has made Google a success, as well as ways Google could out-Google itself. If search engines took a close look at the cultural factors that led to some of Google's success, and then considered how they could leapfrog what Google's doing now, the competition to be your search engine of choice might really heat up.   [Web DevCenter]

Information Architecture Meets Usability  An interview with information architect Lou Rosenfeld and web usability expert Steve Krug about the common pitfalls of their respective disciplines.   [Web DevCenter]

Cooking with JavaScript & DHTML  In this first sample recipe excerpted from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook learn how to use auto-tabbing for fixed-length text boxes. And check back to this space over the next several weeks for more sample recipes covering arrays and objects, browser feature detection, style-sheet management, and HTML elements positioning.   [Web DevCenter]

Dynamic HTML Tables: Improving Performance  The widespread browser adoption of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) and other de facto standards have given developers many ways to repopulate a table. So what's the best approach? Danny Goodman, author of JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, investigates this issue in search of the most efficient techniques for maximizing table-modification code performance. Some of his findings may surprise you.   [Web DevCenter]

Eight Search Engine C Changes  Tara Calishain, coauthor of Google Hacks, offers her first installment in a multi-part series on the latest developments for search engines and online data collections. In this article, Tara ponders the future direction search engines may take. How might pay-for-inclusion programs and other revenue generators, for example, change the way we search?   [Web DevCenter]

Stay on Top of the Latest Technology with News Feeds from O'Reilly  Learn how to set up and use RSS feeds to customize the information you want delivered to your desktop or web application. This article introduces you to RSS newsreaders, technology feeds available from O'Reilly, and resources to help you set up your own RSS feeds.   [Web DevCenter]

Developing Movable Type Plugins  Movable Type's features are so rich that the tool's uses have begun to transcend weblogging. In this article, Timothy Appnel examines the MT plugin framework, its complete API, the basics of hooking into the core systems operation, and its data persistence service.   [Web DevCenter]

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