[whatwg] Fullscreen changes to support <dialog>

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 11:59:36 PDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:31:22 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The thinking so far is that we don't do anything special for dialogs.
>> They don't escape their <iframe>, and the <iframe> doesn't have any
>> special response to a dialog spawning within it, unlike for
>> fullscreen.
>
> That's why I was asking for what I should do with fullscreen :-)

Ah, kk.  We should keep the current behavior that walks up the
browsing context chain and fullscreens everything it can, since you
want to be able to fullscreen, say, a Youtube video embedded via
<iframe>.

~TJ



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