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

Hello,

Right. I've put in a feature request with the Players team, and I'll
update this thread when I have more information about if/when they
will be able to expose that.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev

On Apr 18, 5:28 pm, fightingmonk <juanelconquista...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thank you for the followup.
>
> webkitExitFullScreen() is a method exposed on the HTML5 <video> tag in
> WebKit.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AudioVideo/R...
>
> I'm not sure about support for non-WebKit browsers -- full screen
> isn't addressed in the HTML5 spec AFAIK.
>
> Really, my issue is intended to get us to the ability to "auto-
> dismiss" the player once playback is finished, but I agree that being
> able to invoke something like YT.Player.exitFullScreen() would be more
> general purpose.
>
> On Apr 18, 1:19 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
>
> > 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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