On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Mitchell Reese <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/10/14 22:51, Olivier Tilloy wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Mitchell Reese >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/10/14 08:44, Olivier Tilloy wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mitchell Reese >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. Is there any way currently for webapps to be fullscreen when in >>>>>>> landscape mode? I'm talking about the notification bar >>>>>>> disappearing >>>>>>> when rotating the device on it's side. There are already a >>>>>>> couple >>>>>>> apps that do this (gallery, etc.) and it would be great to have >>>>>>> this >>>>>>> functionality for webapps. Working on a couple games, and >>>>>>> something >>>>>>> just doesn't look right with the notification bar wrong way up >>>>>>> on >>>>>>> the left hand side of the device. It would be great if apps >>>>>>> being >>>>>>> used in landscape mode had this functionality. Is anything like >>>>>>> this >>>>>>> currently possible, or planned? >>>>>> >>>>>> Webapps (and web pages) that request fullscreen should hide the >>>>>> notifications bar. This was not enabled until now because of bug >>>>>> #1328839, but the bug has been fixed, and I submitted a change to >>>>>> reflect that in the browser and the webapps container >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> (https://code.launchpad.net/~osomon/webbrowser-app/fullscreen-workaround-1328839/+merge/237234). >>>>>> Expect this to land soon. >>>>> >>>>> Great, am currently on the dev image for the RTM release, so will >>>>> hopefully >>>>> see this soon. What's the code to enable this in webapps? >>>> >>>> Use the DOM fullscreen API in the app itself: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Using_full_screen_mode. >>> >>> Trying this now, and am a bit lost. Am I using this code with the >>> webapp-container itself, or in the webapps being created in the sdk? No >>> obvious options for where to use this, so I'm missing something entirely. >>> Has this been implemented on a basic level within the webapp template >>> files >>> in the sdk (i.e., can I add an option to one of the obvious files), or do >>> I >>> need to add this code to the webapp-container itself? >> >> The DOM fullscreen API applies to the webapp itself, i.e. the app has >> to request fullscreen from JS code. If you don’t control the code of >> the webapp but still want to make it fullscreen, this is not an >> option. >> >> The webapp-container has a '--fullscreen' command-line switch that >> would do the trick, if it wasn’t broken (tracked by >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1379766). > > Have added to this bug - would be great to see it fixed. For now, have added > this tag to my application for when it gets fixed. Affects the polished look > of Ubuntu webapps, but not functionality. What /would/ be awesome is buit-in > functionality where rotating the device to landscape causes the app to > become fullscreen, and rotating it back to portrait shows the notification > bar.
I don’t think there’s anything like that planned, but feel free to file a bug to request it, and we’ll consider it. > Also, is there any functionality planned to make it easy to change the > time-out of the screen? Not sure if it's in the design time-line, but love > the idea of apps being able to say whether they want the screen to time-out. > Thinking specifically of the ABC 4 Kids webapp I just published - fine for > games when the kids are interacting with the screen, but when watching a > video the screen times out after a minute (my default settings). I can of > course change this in the phone settings, but would be nice for the app to > have an option for this. That’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1375195 : playing back a video in a webapp should inhibit screen blanking, apps shouldn’t have to do anything to request it. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
