Virus666
December 11th, 2011, 10:05 PM
Hi all,
As some of you know YouTube has launced HTML5 video support on January 2010. If we enample HTML5 option in the first of following adresses, supported videos begin to play in HTML5 Player instead of Flash Player.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html
Actually, that is a great news for Free Software community to get rid of proprietary Flash Player... However, as some of you have experienced, HTML5 Player of YouTube does not fully support fullscreen videos; once you clicked "full screen", the video expands as windowboxed insted of fullscreen:
***See attached screenshot***
Of course it is possible to make it actual fullscreen by pressing F11. However, as you can imagine, it is a bit emberessing to press 4 keys to watch and close a video; "full screen", F11, ESC, F11.
There are several explanations from YouTube and Google that explains why HTML5 player does not support actual fullscreen as default:
- Fullscreen is not an accepted specification of HTML5 yet. It may be vulnerable to explotations.
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
However, some other people assert that Firefox Aurora and dev channel of Chrome has the capability of fullscreen HTML5 YouTube video play as default:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/youtubes-html5-player-gets-better.html?showComment=1322072944484#c37077287243 78655185
By the way, I have no plan to switch to Google Chrome or Chromium; same as for the instable releases of Firefox. I have no skill of coding nor scripting, but I thing it should not be that hard to prepare a script or an extension which automaticly presses F11 once we click "full screen" button of HTML5 player of YouTube and automaticly presses the F11 button when press ESC button the exit the fullscreen. Since the player is HTML based, it should not be so complicated...
Any ideas or suggestions?...
Thank you...
As some of you know YouTube has launced HTML5 video support on January 2010. If we enample HTML5 option in the first of following adresses, supported videos begin to play in HTML5 Player instead of Flash Player.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html
Actually, that is a great news for Free Software community to get rid of proprietary Flash Player... However, as some of you have experienced, HTML5 Player of YouTube does not fully support fullscreen videos; once you clicked "full screen", the video expands as windowboxed insted of fullscreen:
***See attached screenshot***
Of course it is possible to make it actual fullscreen by pressing F11. However, as you can imagine, it is a bit emberessing to press 4 keys to watch and close a video; "full screen", F11, ESC, F11.
There are several explanations from YouTube and Google that explains why HTML5 player does not support actual fullscreen as default:
- Fullscreen is not an accepted specification of HTML5 yet. It may be vulnerable to explotations.
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
However, some other people assert that Firefox Aurora and dev channel of Chrome has the capability of fullscreen HTML5 YouTube video play as default:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/youtubes-html5-player-gets-better.html?showComment=1322072944484#c37077287243 78655185
By the way, I have no plan to switch to Google Chrome or Chromium; same as for the instable releases of Firefox. I have no skill of coding nor scripting, but I thing it should not be that hard to prepare a script or an extension which automaticly presses F11 once we click "full screen" button of HTML5 player of YouTube and automaticly presses the F11 button when press ESC button the exit the fullscreen. Since the player is HTML based, it should not be so complicated...
Any ideas or suggestions?...
Thank you...