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Investigate if picture-in-picture can/should be disabled #525

Closed simonwiles closed 4 years ago

simonwiles commented 4 years ago

on Chrome and Firefox (and others?).

simonwiles commented 4 years ago

Recent versions of Safari, Chrome, and Edge support the W3C standard disablePictureInPicture directive, and so this can be easily implemented if desired. Firefox implements its own proprietary API which cannot be disabled except by the user:

Firefox users have access to this Picture-in-Picture capability on all sites. Websites are not able to directly disable it via a WebAPI. This creates a more consistent experience for

I had wondered if there might be accessibility or other issues created by disabling this feature, but I can't find any concern over this, so that seems to be a non-issue.

Leaving this open for further discussion -- I have no strong feelings, but if we can't disable in FF, I'd probably opt for leaving it available on all browsers.

simonwiles commented 4 years ago

After some discussion, we have decided to leave this behaviour enabled.