On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mikko Rantalainen < > mikko.rantalai...@peda.net> wrote: > >> What kind of digesting and analyzing do you think is required? An UA is >> free to implement support for this API in a way that will ever accept >> the request only if the requested element is the video element. In that >> case, the API is a specialized video fullscreen API only. >> > > In fact, there has been a lot of clear feedback that an API that only works > on video elements is unlikely to get much use, since major video sites very > strongly prefer to use their own player UI in fullscreen mode. And of course > their own player UI consists of non-video elements... > > Yes, especially since default player controls don't allow many of the features of more complicated players. On YouTube, for example, you can't do any of the following without our UI: - Change resolution - Change playback speed - Turn captions on or off - Turn annotations on or off (someday, right now this is only in Flash though) If the fullscreen experience is significantly restricted compared to the in-browser experience, users aren't going to be happy. -Kevin
