[whatwg] Fullscreen changes to support <dialog>

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > Fullscreen then defines that when you make an element fullscreen, it's 
> > "pushed onto the top layer", and when an element is unfullscreened, 
> > it's "yanked from the top layer". The user "emergency escape" UI yanks 
> > all fullscreened elements from the top layer (but leaves any other 
> > elements in it; we wouldn't want dialogs to disappear when exiting 
> > full screen mode).
> 
> Escape usually calls cancel on dialogs, no? Seems to me that if you have 
> a dialog open, esc should cancel the dialog, otherwise it should yank 
> all fullscreened elements.

Yes, indeed. I didn't mean to specifically refer to the escape key, so 
much as the generic "escape me out of fullscreen mode because I might be 
being spoofed" emergency escape UI. That could just be a button that 
appears when you hover over the top-right of the screen, for instance.

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