Evan Samek

UPDATE: New code, easier implementation. See it here: Post: Select All Friends Update

So since I have a band, Presto Bando, we very frequently send out Facebook invites to all our friends to come out to our shows.

There used to be a great code out there that would automatically select ALL of your facebook friends when you wish to invite friends to a particular event.  Facebook recently got around that trick, so I decided to try my hand at writing my own.

Presenting: The Invite All Code 2012 for Facebook

Copy and paste the following code in your browser address bar when you have the “Invite Friends” dialogue box open to select all of your friends!

javascript: var inviteAll=function(){var a=document.getElementsByClassName(“checkableListItem”);for(var b=0;b<a.length;b++){var c=a[b],d=document.createEvent("MouseEvents");d.initMouseEvent("click",!0,!0,window,0,0,0,0,0,!1,!1,!1,!1,0,null),c.dispatchEvent(d)}};inviteAll()

NOTE : First scroll all the way down to the bottom of your friends list before running this code, since Facebook dynamically inserts more friends when you get to the end of the list.

What ya’ll think? I rarely get the chance to update this blog…hopefully this new design will give me some reason to.

Enjoy.

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'

});