Thank you for all your work on PiP, it's awesome! I am very interested in PiP on Android. Is any progress being made, and is there an ETA for PiP landing on Android?
On Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 12:25:11 PM UTC-5 Tommy Steimel wrote: > In the future, we may be able to do something on Android that doesn't > support input without any change to Android APIs. If we wanted input in the > PiP window, it would require changes to Android itself. That said, we > haven't seen any interest from web developers for an inputless document PiP > on Android, and there isn't really anything you can do with an inputless > document PiP that you can't do with a canvas-back video PiP, so we haven't > pursued anything on Android. > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 7:06 AM Philip Jägenstedt <foo...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> Thanks Domenic for mentoring and vouching :) I took a very cursory look >> at the API shape and sent a small fix >> <https://github.com/WICG/document-picture-in-picture/pull/81>, thanks >> for reviewing that. >> >> The concerns on https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/41 >> are device independence and portability. For the Android support, can you >> say anything about future expectations? Is this feature simply not >> important on mobile and it might be a desktop-only API for the >> foreseeable future, or would Android support make sense for some use cases? >> If so, does it seem tractable given the requisite changes to Android APIs? >> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:16 AM Domenic Denicola <dom...@chromium.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I was the spec mentor for Tommy's work on this feature, and am chiming >>> in to provide the requested spec maturity summary >>> <https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/#:~:text=If%20your%20specification%20isn%27t%20a%20modification%20of%20an%20existing%20specification%2C%20include%20a%20one%2Dline%20spec%20maturity%20summary%20from%20someone%20outside%20your%20team%20(like%20your%20spec%20mentor)%20who%20has%20done%20a%20review.> >>> . >>> >>> I'm very happy with the spec work for this feature. Tommy worked hard to >>> incorporate all my feedback about how to ensure everything was rigorously >>> defined, and integrated well with existing concepts like opening new >>> windows (navigables). The monkey patches are small, focused, and easy to >>> understand. >>> >>> There is some TAG feedback that seems to wish this was part of >>> window.open() or some other more-general API, but I think that advice is >>> not correct, and the current API design is good, due to the >>> singleton-per-top-level-traversable nature of a document PiP window. In my >>> opinion this makes the window.documentPictureInPicture entrypoint, with its >>> requestWindow(), window, and onenter properties, a good API for the use >>> case. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:51 AM 'Tommy Steimel' via blink-dev < >>> blin...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Contact emailsste...@chromium.org, libe...@chromium.org, >>>> y...@chromium.org >>>> >>>> Explainer >>>> https://github.com/WICG/document-picture-in-picture/blob/main/README.md >>>> >>>> Specificationhttps://wicg.github.io/document-picture-in-picture >>>> >>>> Summary >>>> >>>> Document PiP adds a new API to open an always-on-top window that can be >>>> populated with arbitrary HTMLElements. This is an expansion upon the >>>> existing HTMLVideoElement API that only allows for an HTMLVideoElement to >>>> be put into a PiP window. This allows web developers to provide a better >>>> PiP experience to users. >>>> >>>> >>>> Blink componentBlink>Media>PictureInPicture >>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EMedia%3EPictureInPicture> >>>> >>>> TAG reviewhttps://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/798 >>>> >>>> TAG review statusIssues open >>>> >>>> Risks >>>> >>>> >>>> Interoperability and Compatibility >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Gecko*: No signal ( >>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/670) >>>> >>>> *WebKit*: No signal ( >>>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/41) no official >>>> position, but have some concerns >>>> >>>> *Web developers*: Positive ( >>>> https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-document-picture-in-picture/5736/2?u=steimel) >>>> >>>> In addition to the linked comment, we have some signals from partners that >>>> this would be valuable, and are checking to see if they are OK making that >>>> public >>>> >>>> *Other signals*: >>>> >>>> WebView application risks >>>> >>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such >>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >>>> >>>> N/A since we are not enabling this API on Android >>>> >>>> >>>> Debuggability >>>> >>>> The new methods and properties proposed in this spec will show up in >>>> autocomplete functionality (e.g. window.documentPictureInPicture). The >>>> enter event will support event listener breakpoints in the >>>> "Picture-in-Picture" category. >>>> >>>> >>>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, >>>> Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?No >>>> >>>> At least initially, we're not supporting Android since the Android APIs >>>> don't easily support always-on-top windows with arbitrary interaction >>>> >>>> >>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >>>> ?Yes >>>> >>>> Flag nameblink::features::kDocumentPictureInPictureAPI >>>> >>>> Requires code in //chrome?True >>>> >>>> Tracking bughttps://crbug.com/1315351 >>>> >>>> Launch bughttps://crbug.com/1269059 >>>> >>>> MeasurementWe have UseCounters for the documentPictureInPicture APIs >>>> >>>> Availability expectationFeature is available only in Chromium browsers >>>> for the foreseeable future >>>> >>>> Adoption expectationFeature is used by specific partner(s) to provide >>>> functionality within 12 months of launch in Chrome >>>> >>>> Adoption planFeature is already being used in the OT by partners who >>>> plan to continue using the feature in stable >>>> >>>> Non-OSS dependencies >>>> >>>> Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open >>>> source repository and its open-source dependencies to function? >>>> N/A >>>> >>>> Estimated milestones >>>> Shipping on desktop 116 >>>> OriginTrial desktop last 115 >>>> OriginTrial desktop first 111 >>>> >>>> Anticipated spec changes >>>> >>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or >>>> interop issues. 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