Re: View modes: more precision on fullscreen

2009/10/5 Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>:
> Hi,
>
> it seems to me that there's a missing distinction in our list of view modes: the difference between maximised and fullscreen (or perhaps fullscreen and all-screen).
>
> Maximised is the case in which the application takes up the entire available screen space minus a little bit of chrome either for itself (a window bar with a title and perhaps some buttons) or for the system (task bar, menu clock, etc.); whereas fullscreen is when the viewport is the same size as the screen (e.g. for video playback).
>
> Both desktops and phones tend to have this distinction in one way or another, so it sounds to me as something that we should expose as well.
>
> WDYT?
>

I think application mode already covers this if the application is
maximized as you defined it.



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Received on Sunday, 1 November 2009 17:07:34 UTC