When you go to a product and click on gallery How does the smooth left/right image scrolling work? Doesn't appear to be flash
because throwing several hundred K of javascript at a problem is ALWAYS a good idea. Mootools, yet another fat bloated steaming pile of crap.
It's a huge pile of JS, but turn JS off on your computer-- it's still a nice sliding (with scrollbar) gallery without. Of course Apple uses a huge amount of code to get that effect, but you start with something simple http://stommepoes.nl/Tests/slideshow.html and then if you want, you can use JS to both hide the scrollbar and make everything slide. You only really need two containers to get a slideshow but for some reason every Javascript version has one or two or more extra containers... not sure if that's really needed.
LOL - true, noone likes fat bloated scripts, but mootools is different because you don't have to use the whole steaming pile of crap, you can only reference the modules you want. Besides, if this is a new programmer a few extra K load time is better than the 3 years learning curve it would take them to learn how to replicate mootool's functions.