[whatwg] Scriptable interface for video element FullScreen mode

[Kevin Carle]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mikko Rantalainen <
> mikko.rantalainen at peda.net> wrote:
>
>> What kind of digesting and analyzing do you think is required? An UA is
>> free to implement support for this API in a way that will ever accept
>> the request only if the requested element is the video element. In that
>> case, the API is a specialized video fullscreen API only.
>>
>
> In fact, there has been a lot of clear feedback that an API that only works
> on video elements is unlikely to get much use, since major video sites very
> strongly prefer to use their own player UI in fullscreen mode. And of course
> their own player UI consists of non-video elements...
>
>
Yes, especially since default player controls don't allow many of the
features of more complicated players.

On YouTube, for example, you can't do any of the following without our UI:

   - Change resolution
   - Change playback speed
   - Turn captions on or off
   - Turn annotations on or off (someday, right now this is only in Flash
   though)

If the fullscreen experience is significantly restricted compared to the
in-browser experience, users aren't going to be happy.

-Kevin
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