[whatwg] Full Screen API Feedback

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Thu May 19 03:22:44 PDT 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> Regarding user prompts, I am tentatively in favor of the approach that Jer
> appears to be arguing for, which is to never prompt the user but rather
> simply require direct user interaction in order to go to fullscreen


The rest sounds reasonable, but I doubt "requiring direct user interaction"
(by which I assume you mean requiring the user to click somewhere (anywhere)
in the page) provides any meaningful security benefit. I certainly think I'd
have a hard time convincing our security people of that!

Rob
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