[whatwg] api for fullscreen()

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Kenneth Russell <kbr at google.com> wrote:

> When you say that the DOM viewport of the element is aligned with the
> screen when it goes fullscreen, does that mean that the .width and
> .height properties are changed? Or does it mean that the element's
> size is changed by a CSS style?
>

The latter. The window's viewport is aligned with the screen bounds, and by
default the element is styled with position:fixed; left:0; right:0; top:0;
bottom:0, which resizes it in CSS to fill the viewport.

The case I'm thinking about is when a Canvas element is taken
> fullscreen; on that element changing the .width and .height properties
> changes the size of the backing store, but applying a CSS style to
> change its width and height causes the backing store to be scaled to
> fit. The desired behavior is for the backing store to be resized.
>

The author would have to handle the beginfullscreen event and manually set
the canvas width/height attributes, e.g. to
getBoundingClientRect().width/height. I don't think we should change
width/height attributes automatically, since that has the side effect of
clearing the canvas.

Rob
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