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Cookie Specification Vulnerabilities For years, privacy-minded people have distrusted cookies in web browsers. While recent advances have improved privacy concerns, the specification leaves room for easy attacks. Alexander Prohorenko explains the situation and tests several recent browsers. Is it time for a new cookie specification? [Security DevCenter]
Resizing an Image O'Reilly has just released Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One. To give photographers and web designers a sense of what they'll find in the book, we've excerpted a lesson from Chapter 5 that explains how to modify image size, when to resample, and what to do about resolution. And to make things crystal clear, we've also included one of the QuickTime-based video lessons, called "Image and Canvas Size" (26MB). (If you're not interested in a long download, check out the one-minute excerpt instead. Note: To download either file, you must have QuickTime installed on your machine.) [Web DevCenter]
What's New in Photoshop CS? Photoshop CS may have fewer new features than version 7, but quality counts more than quantity, and Ken Milburn is pretty jazzed about the quality. In this article, he covers the new features in CS he's most excited about. Ken is the author of the just-released Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. [Web DevCenter]
The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 3 You can achieve greater control over the quality of the images produced by your new digital camera if you shoot them in RAW format. Trouble is, it can take an inordinate amount of time to convert RAW images into something your image-editing program can use. In Part 3 of Ken Milburn's series on creating ideal digital photography workflows, he details several steps you can take to save hours of RAW-process work after every shoot. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. [Web DevCenter]
Getting Started with Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Wei-Meng Lee introduces newcomers to the power of InfoPath 2003 and shows how to build a simple form to start collecting data. InfoPath provides three ways to define the types of data you want to collect: using an XML Schema, a database, or a Web service. For this article, Wei-Meng uses an XML Schema. Wei-Meng is the author of Windows XP Unwired. [Web DevCenter]
The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2 Ken Milburn follows up on suggestions he made in Part 1 of this two-part series about creating a minimally destructive workflow for the work you do inside image-editing software. Here he offers five nondestructive editing steps to take once you've downloaded your images. Then he provides some second-stage editing techniques to enhance the impact your images will have on your clients, or your friends and family. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. [Web DevCenter]
Moving Toward the Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow Ken Milburn offers a workflow that digital photographers can follow for preparing for a shoot and determining a shooting procedure, and for downloading, cataloguing, tracking, and archiving the image files that result. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photographer's Handbook. [Web DevCenter]
More Spidering Hacks This week we offer two more hacks on grabbing--or scraping--the information you need, whether it's the link count for a particular Yahoo! category, or the quick answer for the word that's just on the tip of your tongue! Just two of the 100 such workarounds you'll find in O'Reilly's Spidering Hacks. [Web DevCenter]
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JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage Is JPEG2000 the killer image file format for lossless storage? Ken Milburn thinks so. In this article, Ken details the options available in the JPEG2000 plug-in, which have been designed to help photographers losslessly compress and store the highest-quality images as efficiently as possible. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photographer's Handbook. [Web DevCenter]
Spidering Hacks This week we offer two hacks from Spidering Hacks that save you time as well as extra trips to your favorite web sites. The first is on using Template::Extract, a Perl module that allows you to scrape a web page to generate RSS from its data structure. And the second is on using a program called dailystrips to grab all your favorite online comic strips and have them presented in one HTML file. [Web DevCenter]
Fail-Safe Amazon Images Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows anyone with some coding skills to create applications using Amazon’s data, including its images. But relying on someone else’s data on someone else’s servers introduces some challenges. When you’re putting together a dependent, distributed application, you need to prepare for the worst while you’re planning for the best. In this article, Paul Bausch, author of Amazon Hacks, shows you how to do just that. [Web DevCenter]
Cooking with ActionScript, Part 2 This week we conclude our two-part series of excerpts from ActionScript Cookbook with sample recipes on pausing and resuming a sound, saving a local shared object, and searching XML. [Web DevCenter]
Top Ten Tips for Developing ColdFusion Components ColdFusion Components, or CFCs, are a new construct in ColdFusion MX that allow you to move from totally procedural development to a more object-oriented approach. Because this represents a new paradigm for many ColdFusion developers, Robert Brooks-Bilson, author of Programming ColdFusion, 2nd Edition, has assembled a list of tips to keep in mind when developing with CFCs. [Web DevCenter]
Cooking with ActionScript We've a diverse slate this week of recipes for ActionScript developers from the recently released ActionScript Cookbook: Our first is on formatting currency amounts; the second on using a unique depth when creating a new movie clip; and the third on creating timers and clocks. And check back to this space next week for recipes on pausing and resuming a sound, saving a local shared object; and searching XML. [Web DevCenter]
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.
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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]
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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]
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Reverse Text Wizard This script takes the input from the users entry field and simulates typing from right to left. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] Flashing Scrollbar Maker This script lets you create your own flashing scroll bars. Simply type in two colors to the prompt and let JavaScript do the rest! [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] How to Create a JavaScript Windows Interface When Windows first appeared, multiple windows could be used to separate unrelated bits of information within one or many programs. Today, Guyon Roche creates a JavaScript based framework that can be used to organize a web application in a Windows-like fashion. 0513 [Source: WebReference News] JS Search Engine This script will add a Google search box on your site, making it easy for users to search on any topic right from your site. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] JavaScript Quiz A simple and effective JavaScript quiz that calculates and displays detailed results. In this example, two questions are asked but users may add as many questions as they like. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] Javascript Runner This example of a function script will run the JavaScript that is entered into it. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] Sparkles Battle Simulator Battle opponents with characters you can select. This script uses JavaScript to create a role playing game. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] VB String Functions in Javascript Javascript has been expanded to include VB functions. Use standard VB string functions in JavaScript: Trim, Chr, LTrim, RTrim, UCase, LCase, Instr, StrReverse and more. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] Ad Calculator Working with banners ad sales has just gotten a little easier! Just enter two of the three fields of information and the script will do the rest. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] Slide Encryption Program This is another basic encryption/decryption program. The difference is this script can shift characters based on user input and you can use more than one key making your security even more difficult to break. [Source: JavaScriptSource.com news] |
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