Exactly. If you set up an embed with a fullscreen button, you empower
the viewer, as Chuck mentions.
I'd rather see that if I'm the viewer, because a lot of times, people
have these intricate web pages surrounding their embed, and I don't
feel like taking the time to have all that stuff reload
Oh I totally agree about the back button, it has to be new window for me.
Full screen doesn't work for me either, unless the original size is huge. I
hate seeing video scaled.
That brings up another complication though - where full screen may make more
sense: HD. When I relaunch, new video will
Either embed with the player set to a lower resolution, and rely on
people going to fullscreen mode. Or my preferred choice would be the
use of a video poster image thats smaller, and triggers the video in a
lightbox/thickbox which is 1280x720. Something like vPip would help
achieve this.
Im just
my preferred choice would be the
use of a video poster image thats smaller, and triggers the video in a
lightbox/thickbox which is 1280x720.
But is this really better than it triggering a new browser window, say with
just a black background and no distracting graphics or text beyond the good
ol'
Well a fullscreen flash experience is possibly what fits best then, a
well made flash player will have nice controls in fullscreen that
disappear like you want, at least I think that is do-able. Once the
beta version of flash 9 with hardware fullscreen h264 support comes
out of beta, I think
My attitude is to empower the viewer. I use an embed with a full
screen button and let the viewer make the choice.
Chuck
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