- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:36:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Henry Bridge wrote: > > With the video tag and web games gaining traction, it seems like there > should be a way for apps to provide fullscreen and better control > schemes to users. Of course, spoofing and clickjacking are major > concerns, but I liked Alpha Omega's suggestion a few weeks ago [1] to > specify a "fullscreenable" attribute to certain elements that hint to > the UA that the object would be appropriate to consider for fullscreen. > Similarly, for content that uses relative mouse motion or requires great > precision (like a first-person view), it would be useful to have a > "mouselockable" attribute; upon a UA defined interaction, the mouse > would be locked within the particular element and report relative mouse > events until the user disengages the lock. > > I can imagine a variety of ways browsers could expose these features: > overloading F11 to gray out all portions of page except those are > fullscreenable; pressing F11 repeatedly to cycle through elements; > having a right click option on fullscreenable elements, automatic hover > borders etc. I think this would be an interesting idea. I think experimentation with a UI for this would be a good way to find out if it is feasible. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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