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
