true, however a lot of people like to watch slideshows in full screen<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gareth Hay</b> <<a href="mailto:gazhay@gmail.com">gazhay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ok, I take your point, but I think it is valid to say that I am *a<br>lot* more likely to want to watch video fullscreen than see an image
<br>fullscreen, so that is the reasoning behind my thinking, but I do<br>understand that this makes <video> different (special?).<br>Perhaps, if there is a use case for viewing images fullscreen, we can<br>add the ability to the <image> or <img> tag?
<br><br>Gaz<br><br>On 22 Mar 2007, at 17:00, Gervase Markham wrote:<br><br>> Gareth Hay wrote:<br>>> I think it should be like this, as you are telling the <video><br>>> element to go fullscreen and *not* the page.
<br>>> That's my opinion.<br>><br>> I guess that's the heart of it. My view is the opposite. I don't<br>> think video should be special in this regard.<br>><br>> If you want to see an embedded image full screen, you do "View
<br>> Image", then "Full Screen". Why can video not be the same? Of<br>> course, the page should have the option (with the event I<br>> mentioned) of making doing "Full Screen" for the browser Do The
<br>> Right Thing with the video, if they think that's what the Right<br>> Thing is. And maybe that would become the norm on video sharing sites.<br>><br>> Gerv<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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