A bookmarklet to resize any Flash object on HTML pages.

FlashResize.js

var FlashResizer = {
    init: function() {
        var yuiScript = document.createElement("script");
        yuiScript.setAttribute("src", "http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.7.0/build/utilities/utilities.js&2.7.0/build/button/button-min.js&2.7.0/build/json/json-min.js&2.7.0/build/logger/logger-min.js&2.7.0/build/resize/resize-min.js&2.7.0/build/stylesheet/stylesheet-min.js");
        yuiScript.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript")
        document.body.appendChild(yuiScript);
        
        var curObj = this;
        var loader = document.createElement("div");
        loader.innerHTML = "Loading";
        loader.className = ".loader";
        document.body.appendChild(loader);
        
        var timerHandler = window.setInterval(function() {
            if (typeof(YAHOO) !== "undefined") {
                window.clearInterval(timerHandler);
                //this.myLogReader = new YAHOO.widget.LogReader();
                YAHOO.widget.Logger.enableBrowserConsole()
                YAHOO.log("Starting Flash Resizer");
                curObj.setStyles();
                loader.parentNode.removeChild(loader);
                var flashElements = curObj.getFlashElements();
                for (var i = 0; i < flashElements.length; i++) {
                    var handleDiv = curObj.createDivOnTop(flashElements[i]);
                    handleDiv.className = "flash-hilite";
                    curObj.addHandlers(handleDiv, flashElements[i]);
                }
            }
        }, 1000);
    },
    
    /**
     * Gets the list of all flash objects in the page.
     * If the flash element is in the windowed mode, sets it to opaque mode
     * so that the div elements can see it
     */
    getFlashElements: function() {
    
        var objectFlash = function() {
            var result = [];
            var embedTags = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
            for (var i = 0; i < embedTags.length; i++) {
                var parameters = document.getElementsByTagName("param");
                var wmodeFound = false;
                var wmodeChanged = false;
                for (var j = 0; j < parameters.length; j++) {
                    if (parameters[i].getAttribute("name") === "wmode") {
                        if (parameters[i].getAttribute("value") === "window") {
                            parameters[i].setValue("value", "opaque");
                            wmodeFound = true;
                            wmodeChanged = true
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
                if (wmodeFound === false) {
                    var wmodeParam = document.createElement("param");
                    wmodeParam.setAttribute("name", "wmode");
                    wmodeParam.setAttribute("value", "opaque");
                    embedTags[i].appendChild(wmodeParam);
                    wmodeChanged = true
                }
                if (wmodeChanged === true) {
                    var newFlash = embedTags[i].cloneNode(true);
                    embedTags[i].parentNode.replaceChild(newFlash, embedTags[i]);
                    YAHOO.log("Changing wmode to transparent for " + embedTags[i])
                    
                }
                result.push(embedTags[i]);
            }
            return result;
            
        }
        
        var embedFlash = function() {
            var result = [];
            var embedTags = document.getElementsByTagName("embed");
            for (var i = 0; i < embedTags.length; i++) {
                if (embedTags[i].getAttribute("wmode") == null || embedTags[i].getAttribute("wmode") === "window") {
                    var newFlash = embedTags[i].cloneNode(true);
                    newFlash.setAttribute("wmode", "opaque");
                    embedTags[i].parentNode.replaceChild(newFlash, embedTags[i]);
                    YAHOO.log("Changing wmode to transparent for " + embedTags[i])
                }
                result.push(embedTags[i]);
            }
            return result;
        }
        
        if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Internet Explorer") !== -1) {
            return objectFlash();
        }
        else {
            return embedFlash();
        }
        
        
    },
    
    setStyles: function() {
        YAHOO.util.Get.css(["http://n.parashuram.googlepages.com/FlashResize.css", "http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.7.0/build/assets/skins/sam/skin.css"]);
    },
    
    createDivOnTop: function(element, parent) {
        if (typeof(parent) === "undefined") {
            parent = element.parentNode;
        }
        YAHOO.log("Creating Div on top of " + element);
        YAHOO.log(element);
        var handleDiv = document.createElement("div");
        handleDiv.id = "handler-" + Math.random();
        handleDiv.style.width = element.offsetWidth + "px";
        handleDiv.style.height = element.offsetHeight + "px";
        parent.appendChild(handleDiv);
        
        var top = element.offsetTop;
        var left = element.offsetLeft;
        var parentList = {};
        var tempElem = parent;
        while (tempElem != null) {
            parentList[tempElem] = true;
            tempElem = tempElem.parentNode;
        }
        
        tempElem = element.offsetParent;
        while (typeof(tempElem) !== "undefined" && tempElem !== null && !(tempElem in parentList)) {
            top += tempElem.offsetTop;
            left += tempElem.offsetLeft;
            tempElem = tempElem.offsetParent;
        }
        
        YAHOO.log(["Setting ", handleDiv.id, "(", top, ",", left, ")-(", element.offsetWidth, ",", element.offsetHeight, ")"].join(""));
        YAHOO.log(handleDiv);
        handleDiv.style.top = top + "px";
        handleDiv.style.left = left + "px";
        
        return handleDiv;
    },
    
    addHandlers: function(elem, flashElement) {
        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elem, "mousemove", function(e, obj) {
            obj.style.opacity = "0.7";
        }, elem, this);
        
        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elem, "mouseout", function(e, obj) {
            obj.style.opacity = "0.3";
        }, elem, this);
        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elem, "click", function(e, obj) {
            this.augmentFlash(obj, flashElement);
        }, elem, this);
    },
    
    augmentFlash: function(handler, flashElem) {
        var clonedFlash = flashElem.cloneNode(true);
        YAHOO.util.Event.purgeElement(handler);
        handler.className = ".flash-clicked";
        
        var moveHandler = this.createDivOnTop(flashElem, document.body);
        moveHandler.className = "move-handler";
        clonedFlash.setAttribute("width", "99%");
        clonedFlash.setAttribute("height", "99%");
        moveHandler.appendChild(clonedFlash);
        flashElem.parentNode.removeChild(flashElem);
        
        var resize = new YAHOO.util.Resize(moveHandler, {
            handles: 'all',
            knobHandles: true,
            proxy: false,
            draggable: true,
            animate: false,
        });
        moveHandler.style.position = "absolute";
    }
}

FlashResizer.init();