[whatwg] Full screen for the <video> element
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Oct 30 02:17:51 PDT 2007
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Dave Singer wrote:
>
> I think if you can collect keystrokes then phishing is also on the
> cards, alas.
True.
> > > 2. It's not clear what would be the best way for UAs to provide the
> > > functionality while preventing sites from taking advantage of the
> > > feature and annoying users.
> >
> > Both, and also that it's considered ok for the user to have to tell
> > the UA that he wants to go fullfreen (rather than the script having to
> > tell the UA that the user wants to go fullscreen).
>
> I think there's both demand and precedent; and if it's not in the
> spec., as I say, it should be explicitly excluded with its reasons, so
> browser makers don't simply all add it as an extension. That way, we'd
> get all the problems again, plus an interoperability problem as well.
Good point. Added a note.
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