RefreshDC IE6 Presentation – Evan Samek

Hi all.

So I just wanted to post this fix for all of those people out there that are using JWPlayer and jQuery to hide and show videos on Internet Explorer.

In order to pause the video the video when the video is out of view, or hidden, you need to specify the following:

//the true parameter is KEY for IE
jwplayer('playerID').pause(true);

Another problem you may notice with JWPlayer, and maybe other flash embedding methods, is that when you show the video again, the video is black. The audio will still play, but the actual video is just black. In order to fix this, you need to set the flashvar stretching to ‘exactfit’. Example below:

jwplayer('playerContainer').setup({

flashplayer: 'player.swf',

file: 'file/directory/file.mp4',

height: '405',

width: '720',

stretching: 'exactfit'

});

Its true.  If you look in the upper right hand corner of your toolbar you should have a wrench icon, which quite commonly enough brings up a drop-down with various settings.  Right below “Preferences…” is a “View Background Process (#)” link. Click it and it will bring up Chrome’s own task manager.

That link, “Stats for nerds” is also a great little tool for seeing what tabs and extensions have been using as far as memory is concerned.  A great development tool for those wishing to create extensions for chrome and writing optimized javascript and HTML5.  I also love the nerdy Bug message at the top, and issue 25454.

Boy Genius Report got an exclusive hands on with the Blackberry Playbook, the newest tablet to enter (TBD) the consumer market.  I have to say the UI seems to be incredibly influenced by Palm’s WebOS…with card like multi-tasking.  Also interaction with the tablet seems very responsive and loading time, even when a few apps are opened, is impressively fast.  They just need to get this thing to market before iPad2 hits.  Video below: