Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Early design review: Document Picture-in-Picture (Issue #798)

Sorry for the delay. 

> Hi @steimelchrome, thank you for your recent updates. We are still unclear as to whether [options 2 and 3 from Lea's comment](https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/798#issuecomment-1892583836) have been considered - could you point us to the outcome of any discussions on those?

I don't think we have any written-down outcome/resolution I can point to. I just sent an email to Domenic to discuss further and I'll post a resolution here.

> I'm still concerned that this feature doesn't appear to be widely implementable across platforms, as discussed in the [WebKit standards-positions issue on this](https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/41).

For Android (and possibly iOS, but I'm less familiar with iOS), with current system APIs we could implement a non-interactive version of document picture-in-picture (allowing the website to populate it with arbitrary HTML elements, but not actually allow input). There are some potential issues (e.g. a pip window that has an active media session would show media controls, which may or may not be appropriate depending on the use case), but we haven't seen any demand for this so we haven't pursued it. But you're right that arbitrary interactive HTML would not be implementable without new Android/iOS APIs to support it.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what changes we could make to the API to support these use cases on desktop while remaining 100% implementable on mobile. Do you have any ideas?

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