Re: [fullscreen-api] Allowing AJAX requests when in fullscreen mode from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-01-24 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:44:36 -0500
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <510164F4.4030600@mit.edu>

On 1/24/13 9:22 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> That seems overly broad.  For example, navigating to a named anchor should
>> not exit fullscreen, in my opinion.  Is there no sufficiently-late step in
>> the navigate algorithm that this can hook into?
>
> The navigate algorithm defines this, I have not studied the
> particulars, but I believe scrolling to a named anchor should work
> fine. Just thinking that maybe we should allow same-origin navigation
> too.

How would that work, exactly?  Fullscreen is requested on a particular 
element, last I checked.  Once you get to the point where that element's 
owner document is not the document being displayed, how is that element 
supposed to say fullscreen in a reasonable way?

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:45:07 UTC