balachandar muruganantham wrote:
Hi,

I have heard from people that there have been a discussion on supporting the
fullscreen mode for HTML5 video element. can anyone share the information on
the conclusion we arrived at? i searched in the archive but i could not come
to any conclusion.

-bala

I was part of the initial thread that was left unresolved. I would just re-iterate that its important the fullscreen system does not deprive the web designer of flexibility to do DOM overlays / layouts.

For example in the fullscreen mode in the html5 player in development for wikimedia: http://bit.ly/aLo1pZ We want to be able to display the timed text as well as player interface in the "full-screen" mode. Presently that is accomplish with a bit of hackery but works relatively well especially if the user knows to press f11. Also should not be so bad performance wise once all the hardware accelerated rendering browser back-ends start landing ;)

peace
--michael

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