Gervase Markham wrote:
Gareth Hay wrote:
I think it should be like this, as you are telling the <video> element
to go fullscreen and *not* the page.
That's my opinion.
I guess that's the heart of it. My view is the opposite. I don't think
video should be special in this regard.
If you want to see an embedded image full screen, you do "View Image",
then "Full Screen". Why can video not be the same? Of course, the page
should have the option (with the event I mentioned) of making doing
"Full Screen" for the browser Do The Right Thing with the video, if they
think that's what the Right Thing is. And maybe that would become the
norm on video sharing sites.
Incidentally, although I'm in favour of the full-screen feature under
discussion being for full-screen *video*, not full-screen pages, I'm not
arguing that this should be mandated by the spec. This is something that
browsers could choose to offer, just as they could choose to offer
full-screen images as you mention in your example.
Given that showing a video or image full-screen requires no co-operation
from the page it was embedded on, it doesn't need to be in the spec.
It's a browser implementation detail.
