- From: Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:40:05 +0300
Le Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:34:26 +0300, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> a ?crit: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Mihai Sucan wrote: >> >> Shouldn't the video API include a way to toggle full screen on/off? This >> is a rather basic feature of videos. If it will not be available, video >> sites will hack around missing full screen support. >> >> The current spec doesn't define it. > > Currently, the spec recommends that user agents provide a way to switch > the view of the video to full-screen. We can't provide a programatic way > of doing it because it is too easily abused. (Can you imagine if every > time you went to a new site, a full-window or full-screen advert played?) Yep, that's a problem. I was also thinking along the lines of allowing fullscreen() within non-synthetic event handlers, in a similar fashon to popups (just like Kornel suggested). If that's not a desirable solution, then other solutions, which don't require confirmation, are not easy to find. -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
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