- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:51:10 -0700
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> I imagine what will happen is that pages will create a <video> that >> covers the whole content area of the current window and then have some >> mechanism that minimizes the video again. >> >> I could see an argument for having an API that maximizes the video >> within the content area of the current window and adds some sort of >> browser specific UI to minimize it again. >> >> However, it isn't clear that sites will prefer that over having their >> users choose 'fullscreen' from the context menu (or whatever other UI >> the browser chooses to use). >> >> Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the idea of an API >> for "fullwindow". What do other people think? > > Why do we need an API for it? Just use CSS. It's a few lines of code. The only reason would be that it'd give a unified UI for un-maximizing the video. I.e. the UI would be provided by the browser rather than the page. But I agree it's not a strong reason, and if nothing else could wait to a later version to verify that there actually is a desire for such a feature. / Jonas
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