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Displaying a dialog will cause pages to lose fullscreen

Category
JavaScript
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 70)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Dialogs (e.g. authentication prompts, payments, filepickers) require proper context for users to make decisions. Fullscreen, by definition is immersive, and removes the context that a user needs to make a decision. Therefore, whenever a page causes a dialog to be shown, that page will lose any HTML5 fullscreen that it has entered.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UhlQmjVk_AJuDLabB__mERqGQ3pKDtoZ-Qi9zudl424

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