[YouTube-API] Re: IFrame API and webkitExitFullScreen revisit

Hello,

Hmmm, I wasn't aware that webkitExitFullScreen() existed. I'll see
what the Players engineering team has to say about wrapping that in a
YT.Player method.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Apr 13, 8:33 pm, fightingmonk <juanelconquista...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know full screen this has been touched on a couple of times before
> (http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://groups.google.com/group/
> youtube-api-gdata/browse_thread/thread/
> feaec0be869290ff&usg=AFQjCNFeUf3Pk5sADAgmbUHoGcKp14Z2sw andhttp://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata/browse_thread/thread...)
> but I have not seen a solution to this problem:
>
> On an iPhone using the IFrame API a video always plays full-screen,
> but when the video is finished it does not automatically dismiss --
> the user must tap the Done button. This is a problem because the
> player will report a state change to ENDED either if someone taps Done
> or if the video completes, but we don't know whether the web page is
> visible.
>
> Being able to invoke webkitExitFullScreen() on the video element would
> allow us to dismiss the full-screen overlay once playback is reported
> as ENDED. Lacking this there's no way to know whether the web page is
> visible or not, not to mention the annoyance of someone having to take
> an extra step to dismiss the full-screen video view.
>
> Can anyone comment on solutions or whether the YouTube team would
> consider adding this support?
>
> Thanks.

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