Re: [whatwg/fullscreen] Allow fullscreen to be triggered by an orientation change event (#34)

Reviving this: we had more discussions about the issue internally and today Chrome will not be able to implement a nice and smooth solution without bad frames even with a dedicated API. Chrome Android has issues with this that go beyond the API (try to rotate a playing fullscreen <video>). Fixing these issues isn't trivial.

I believe that there is no point in designing an API that couldn't be implemented significantly better than making the two calls. Having an incremental approach here would help: allow usage of Fullscreen + Screen Orientation APIs then build a better API. I wouldn't want us to delay offering this feature to the mobile web hoping to have the perfect API ready.

It seems that both the Firefox and Chrome security teams see no issues in allowing fullscreen requests on orientation changes. Should we go forward with the change then?

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