Re: [w3c/screen-orientation] Consume transient activation (PR #218)

@smaug---- wrote:
> right, and then I wouldn't use that site again. 

That seems really unfair on users and an extremely privileged position to take: users don't always have a choice as to which sites they use. Sometimes there is no alternative. 

We have the opportunity for sites to do the right thing here. 

> Sites can do many annoying things.

Sure, but that's not a reason to keep the status quo or to make things worse. By that logic, we should have never added `SecureContext` to Geolocation or gated any API on user activation because "the web does annoying things" 🤷. That seems counter productive. 

We should be aiming to make things better when we spot issues (even if it breaks a few sites).

> Do we have any telemetry data whether this is actually web compatible?

No, but given the API is gated already on fullscreen, which requires transient activation, it should be broadly compatible. 

I don't think I'd ship this in webkit without this mitigation, for the reasons I already gave. 

I'm inviting other browser vendors to make what are pretty reasonable changes (along with #230).  


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