[whatwg] api for fullscreen()

narendra sisodiya narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 22:27:09 PST 2009


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Michael Dale wrote:
>>
>> It would be really nice if the html5 spec supported a javascript call to
>> set a target window to fullscreen. The browser would then issue a
>> security warning at the top of the page (similar to pop-ups) and then
>> the user could grant that domain permission to go full-screen.
>
> Why would that be better than the user just telling the UA to make the
> page full-screen directly?
>
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It may be used for full-screen playback of ogv/ogg videos (without
using any addon - http://en.design-noir.de/mozilla/fullscreen-video/ )
Or something usefull to view a fullscreen image galary Or a svg/canvas
Game.


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