[whatwg] Full screen for the <video> element

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
> 
> Couldn't this be protected in a similar way pop-up blocking works? If 
> not, browsers could simply display confirmation dialog box before 
> entering fullscreen (some sort of protection is neccessary to protect 
> against phishing and annoyance).

The popup blocking is highly inadequate, sadly. It isn't a model we really 
want to follow.

Displaying a confirmation dialog is considered poor UI.


> I think Mihai has a valid point here -- if there's no API for 
> fullscreen, custom players won't be able to provide UI for it or will 
> try to fake it.

Why would the UA's own fullscreen UI not be eough?


> I suggest adding fullscreen() (toggleFullscreen? enterFullscreen?) 
> method that returns false if UA refused to enter fullscreen:
> 
> if (!video.fullscreen())
> {
> 	openVideoInLargePopupInstead();
> }

In practice such an API would simply always return false.


On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
> Indeed. But it would be good to have an event which triggers when the 
> user chooses to go full screen, so the page can e.g. hide headers and 
> borders. (Or perhaps the onresize() event on the body already does 
> that?).

The 'projection' media type is probably the best solution for this.

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