That's Flash's behavior, not YouTube's choice - we'd love to allow fullscreen usage on one screen while focus is in another. This is the right way to do it, though - content can* *request changes to the fullscreen state, but the User Agent is ultimately responsible for granting or denying that request, or even changing arbitrarily later on.
-John On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:52 AM, timeless <[email protected]> wrote: > no. > > it is not ok to allow content authors to refuse to deliver content > unless they are "full screen". > > having events which enable providers to hold users hostage is a bad thing. > > if i have two screens today and try to watch a youtube video "full > screen" (with flash), it tries to unfullscreen when my focus shifts to > the other screen. > > this isn't proper. my system should not be held hostage to the whims > of providers.. >
