[whatwg] Fullscreen events dispatched to elements
Jer Noble
jer.noble at apple.com
Tue Jun 5 10:08:08 PDT 2012
On Jun 5, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl> wrote:
> Why should we standardize this if we always notify the document? Is
> there a benefit to notifying both the element and the document?
I think Vincent put forward a reasonable argument. The document is a finite, shared resource. Requiring authors to share that resource will inevitably lead to conflicts. Those (hypothetical) conflicts may be manageable, but including the fullscreen element in the event dispatch gives developers a means to avoid them entirely.
> For better or worse, existing implementations are still prefixed as
> far as I know and incompatible with each other. So that in itself is
> not really an argument for changing the standard.
Of course. I was just pointing out an alternate solution.
-Jer
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