If you’re like me, you watch a lot of videos online – The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Zero Punctuation to name but a few. If I had to focus only on what’s currently playing, I wouldn’t be doing anything constructive at all. So if a clip is longer than 2-3 minutes, I usually pull the tab out from Safari, resize and pan the viewport, place it somewhere on the screen and go back to whatever I was doing before.
Cumbersome.
Then the idea struck me. I could make a bookmarklet that would do all the hard work for me. And I did: Cut-out Page
Tested in Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5. Feel free to modify, steal, rewrite, whatever. I should put it on GitHub, but I’m still git-less afer upgrading to Snow Leopard. And lazy.
Known bugs:
- Safari’s window resizes programatically only if there are no other tabs.
- Firefox will reload Flash object when script gets rid of scrollbars. Weird bug, but hey – it’s Firefox, remember?
