[whatwg] Fullscreen for HTML5 Video element

Kiosks and the like fall into the category where the user agent, hardware platform, and so on, are known in advance, so proprietary extensions or other special methods work just fine.

On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:04 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
>> Dawid Czyzewski <magneto4u at gmail.com> schrieb am Mon, 8 Mar 2010
>> 16:05:00 +0100:
>> 
>>> Full screen custom UI is very needed feature and it's need to be
>>> solved somehow. Specially in times here HD video show up on Internet.
>> 
>> This seems to be a presentational issue. Maybe that is a use case better
>> solved with CSS media types or media queries.
> 
> In what situations would we want automatic full-screen video? I can
> think of Kiosks, or where a Web browser is used for watching TV. Is
> this really something we can express through media queries?
> 
> Cheers,
> Silvia.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 8 March 2010 17:46:46 UTC