[whatwg] Fullscreen Update

[João Eiras]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:31:40 +0200, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:00 AM, João Eiras <joaoe at opera.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you just solved your own issue :) Your if check is wrong given  
>> your
>> use case.
>
>
> No, that's missing the point.  These obscure corner cases should be
> minimized (in any API, and especially web APIs).  People won't know to  
> test
> them, and everyone's browsing experience will be buggier when in
> F11-fullscreen.
>
> Can anyone suggest a use case for having fullscreen be true when in  
> browser
> (F11) fullscreen?  I can't think of any.
>
> Besides, if the developer failed to test, it would just require an extra
>> click.
>>
>
> It wouldn't work at all.  The exitFullscreen call would fail or no-op  
> (you
> can't exit F11 fullscreen with this API, of course; it's not yours to  
> exit),
> so the next click would just call exitFullscreen again.
>

F11 and document.requestFullscreen() should produce exactly the same  
results, so, document.fullscreen would be enabled. And there's no reason  
not to (and otherwise would make the spec needlessly more complex).