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Why does double clicking a video make it fullscreen? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I found the flag to disable it, but I'm really curious why the decision was made in the first place. On Chrome and Firefox, l If you double click this example HTML5 : https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp, it will go full screen. I've always wondered why sometimes click on a video would make it go fullscreen, it's laggy and annoying for me, even on high-end laptops. On My Mac, as well as in Windows and Fedora VMs.

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 65 points 9 months ago

It’s been standard behavior in many video players since before browsers supported video at all.

[-] juli@programming.dev 29 points 9 months ago

Double clicking the titlebar makes a window big as well. Has always been like that. It's just a convenient shortcut.

Got an alternative?

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because otherwise you're just rapidly starting then stopping the video. What else would you have it do?

[-] ratman150@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

It was probably done to accommodate both mouse and keyboard users and touchscreen users.

Never had an issue with it though.

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