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Expose Picture-in-Picture Window in leavepictureinpicture event

Category

Multimedia

Type

No developer-visible change

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 85)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Allow web developers to access pictureInPictureWindow in leavepictureinpicture event.

Motivation

Web developers won’t have to keep a global reference to the pictureInPictureWindow object that was available already in the enterpictureinpicture event.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/w3c/picture-in-picture/pull/189
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Positive
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1096350

Docs: https://w3c.github.io/picture-in-picture/#example-update-video-on-window-size-changes

Explainers: As raised by Mozilla folks at https://github.com/w3c/picture-in-picture/issues/188, we should provide a way to access the Picture-in-Picture window when user-agent leaves Picture-in-Picture. This is why we’re adding a pictureInPictureWindow attribute to the leavepictureinpicture event.

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