Re: [whatwg] Page reflow when entering/exiting fullscreen

2013-07-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Matt Falkenhagen fal...@chromium.org wrote: When an element goes fullscreen, should the browser try to retain the layout of the underlying document, e.g., by creating a placeholder for the element? It's not entirely clear to me what you mean by placeholder.

Re: [whatwg] Page reflow when entering/exiting fullscreen

2013-07-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Matt Falkenhagen fal...@chromium.org wrote: By placeholder, I mean a dummy renderer with the same dimensions as the element before it went full screen, added in its place when it goes fullscreen to prevent the page from reflowing. There are probably other ways

Re: [whatwg] Page reflow when entering/exiting fullscreen

2013-07-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Matt Falkenhagen wrote: When an element goes fullscreen, should the browser try to retain the layout of the underlying document, e.g., by creating a placeholder for the element? With the top layer, it's possible to style the fullscreened element and ::backdrop such

[whatwg] Page reflow when entering/exiting fullscreen

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Falkenhagen
When an element goes fullscreen, should the browser try to retain the layout of the underlying document, e.g., by creating a placeholder for the element? With the top layer, it's possible to style the fullscreened element and ::backdrop such that the underlying document is visible. In such a