[whatwg] fullscreen event?

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Martijn wrote:
> 
> I was thinking, maybe a fullscreen (and a normalscreen event or 
> something like that) event would be useful? Also, a fullScreen property 
> (which returns true or false) on the window would in that case be handy. 
> Afaik, Mozilla already has such a property, only it doesn't work (it's 
> always false, iirc).

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Dean Edwards wrote:
> 
> What do you have in mind? I know that the browser's chrome disappears 
> but otherwise how is this different from a normal resize event?

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Martijn wrote:
> 
> Hmm, yes, I guess it's not really that much different from a resize 
> event. So, indeed a fullscreen event is probably not that useful. But I 
> think a way of detecting when the browser is in fullscreen mode would be 
> useful.

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Dean Edwards wrote:
> 
> I'm not really against the idea but Ian likes use cases. ;-)

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Martijn wrote:
> 
> Well, I guess the fullscreen option is used for presentations. So I 
> guess you would want to change the layout of a page, or the behavior, 
> for example. I see that Opera already has a css way of doing this with 
> the @media projection rule. So that's not a very strong use case, I 
> guess.

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Arve Bersvendsen wrote:
> 
> Opera applies stylesheets with 'media="projection"' when it goes in to 
> fullscreen (projection) mode, so in one sense the resulting document is 
> different. On the other hand, detecting this on resize is fairly 
> trivially acheived by checking the style of some reference element.

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Arve Bersvendsen wrote:
> 
> Not really, no. There is also the distinction between paged and 
> continous media, see <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html> and 
> <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/media.html#media-groups>

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Arve Bersvendsen wrote:
> 
> Multiple simultaneous, interactive renderings of the same document is a 
> can of worms I'm not sure the world is ready to open just yet; For 
> instance, what happens when events are invoked one one of the views, but 
> not on the other?

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Jorgen Horstink wrote:
> 
> I think a fullscreen event is not necessary because it is not that much 
> different from a normal resize event. The question is: when is it 
> usefull to know whether or not the browser chrome is visible or not? For 
> presentations you can just press a button (if the browser supports 
> fullscreen mode) and a resize event will be fired. Properties and Events 
> regarding to fullscreen should not be in the specs. That should be up to 
> the vendor to implement. I just had a little chat with Anne and he 
> thinks a rendering change event (ie: before printing, generate a table 
> of contents) will be usefull. I think he is right.

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dean Edwards wrote:
>
> I suggested onbeforeprint/onafterprint events a while back. It got shot 
> down. :-(

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> My suggestion would be to have a renderingMode event (or something like 
> that) which in some way exposes a mediaList of the current rendering 
> modes (mostly just one). If you go to print preview mode for example the 
> event is dispatched and the mediaList contains 'print'. If you go to 
> projection mode it contains 'print' etc.

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dean Edwards wrote:
> 
> Sounds good to me. :-)

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Martijn wrote:
> 
> Yeah, sounds good to me, too. I also would like to know which rendering 
> mode the window is in, at a particular time, I guess a getRenderingMode 
> methode or something. Wouldn't the onbeforeprint/onafterprint event 
> handlers also fit in here, somehow? Something like 
> onbeforerenderingmodechange/onafterrenderingmodechange?

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> Such a thing (as well as print CSS) can be used in an obnoxious way to 
> implement weak anti-print Digital Restrictions Management. A *User* 
> Agent should always allow printing the current DOM with the current CSS 
> applied.
> 
> Something I wrote long ago: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/print-ui/

This is a presentational concern, handled mostly pretty well by @media and 
media="" today. If we really want events, I would say this is something 
that CSSOM should specify.

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