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HTML5 Fullscreen Video

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The article seems to imply this is due to a new feature introduced by the SublimeVideo team which really isn't the case. They've simply added support for the fullscreen API that has been added in Safari 5.1 (and is coming to other browsers--something noted only in the footnote).

Not that I'm down on the Sublime Player; but this is a browser feature that they could have been coding for all along (as the specs started to surface months ago) and now "just works" because there's finally a browser that implements it.

Here's the documentation for Safari's 'webkitEnterFullscreen': http://tiny.cc/uw00x

Addendum: the 'document' extras: http://tiny.cc/kaktu

webkitCancelFullScreen webkitCurrentFullScreenElement webkitFullScreenKeyboardInputAllowed webkitIsFullScreen onwebkitfullscreenchange

And for when your shortened URLs break:

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/ipad/#documentatio...

FTFY

This is full viewport, not fullscreen. Which I guess is fullscreen if you tap F11.

Edit - Scrap that, only works in Safari. My mistake.

As nice as the Sublime Video player is, I wish their pricing model wasn't subscription-based. It's been a barrier to using it in some client sites where they don't want a recurring fee for their video player. Not everything needs to be cloud-based. My video player's javascript is one of those things.

There are quite a few free options out there. Here are a few:

http://mediaelementjs.com/

http://www.projekktor.com/

http://dev.mennerich.name/showroom/html5_video/

"Until now, the lack of true fullscreen playback has been the biggest limitation of HTML5 over Flash video."

I thought the biggest limitation was protecting premium video from being downloaded/accessed. Isn't that why Hulu won't go HTML5 yet?

People having been saying "feature X is the biggest limitation of HTML5 over Flash, but it's coming so Flash days are counted" for years now. Don't expect it to change any time sooner.

whatever, dude

That was a joke re: his username. Thanks for the down votes.

People wouldn't say that if they didn't mind Flash.

Flash sucks, and it's worth our while to hope for better.

This is not HTML5 fullscreen video, this is Safari 5.1 fullscreen video.

I can't wait for HTML5 full screen spec implementation on major browsers, not just for videos, but for web pages in general including canvas. It will deliver a more richer User Experience.

Agreed, it should be generalized so that games can run fullscreen without having to go futz through the menu.

That Helvetica Neue (UltraLight) is seriously unreadable. It's a beautiful typeface for headlines and accent text, but blocks of it are mush.

Firefox has had fullscreen HTML5 video for some time. So no, this is not the first HTML5 fullscreen video.

I was confused, too. From what I gather, this is to allow authors to control fullscreen mode from script.

I don't think you deserved the downvote. The linked article certainly could have afforded to be clearer. After a reread, I'm still not convinced that what they're trying to say is clear without some outside intuition.

Are there some mechanisms to prevent advertisers from annoying behavior?

I'm not sure of the html5 limitations, but I do know that Flash only allows you to enter fullscreen on a keyboard or mouse click event, so I'd hope the browsers copy this requirement.

Currently not it seems. It doesn't seem to matter from where I call videoElement.webkitEnterFullscreen(), it always works (in Safari)

Surprisingly, this also works in Opera

What version are you using id I may ask? I've 11.50 and it's not working for me (as it is not full screen, just full window).

This works fine for me in Chrome.

which build are you using?

In Chrome, Firefox and IE the video don't go fullscreen but instead the div with the <video> does span all over the page.

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