[whatwg] Fullscreen events dispatched to elements

Jer Noble jer.noble at apple.com
Mon Jun 4 23:31:57 PDT 2012


On Jun 4, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:

> If you implemented that proposal as-is then authors would usually need a listener on the document as well as the element, and as Chris pointed out, it's simpler to just always listen on the document.
> 
> Is that true for the Webkit implementation or did you implement something slightly different?

Sorry, you're right; we did implement something slightly different.  We always dispatch a message to the element, and additionally one the document if the element has been removed from the document.  So authors only have to add event listeners to one or the other.

-Jer



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