Request fullscreen on orientation change

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 54)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Allow web pages to request fullscreen while an orientation change event handler is running. This will allow pages to go fullscreen when the user turn their device.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/#allowed-to-request-fullscreen
Firefox: Positive
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/628603

Samples: https://mounirlamouri.github.io/sandbox/fullscreen-orientation.html

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