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Bug 9938 - No API for fullscreen? Really? Can we please have better options other than a totalitarian "you can't do it?" I thought the idea was to be better than Flash. Yet, you still don't allow simple functionality such as that. Tie it to a button. Ask the user's
Summary: No API for fullscreen? Really? Can we please have better options other than a...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-06-16 15:22 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-06-16 15:22:22 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video

Comment:
No API for fullscreen? Really? Can we please have better options other than a
totalitarian "you can't do it?" I thought the idea was to be better than
Flash. Yet, you still don't allow simple functionality such as that. Tie it to
a button. Ask the user's permission. *Something* other than complete denial
for God's sake. 

Posted from: 72.48.115.236
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-27 23:10:54 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: see below
Rationale: Work is ongoing in this area. I've removed the warning disallowing an API for now. I expect an API to be defined in another specification (CSSOM, probably).
Comment 2 contributor 2010-08-27 23:15:03 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5381.
Check-in comment: remove obsolete warning
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5380&to=5381