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

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/picture-in-picture.

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

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=picture-in-picture
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Expose%20Picture-in-Picture%20Window%20in%20leavepictureinpicture%20event
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Expose%20Picture-in-Picture%20Window%20in%20leavepictureinpicture%20event
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Expose%20Picture-in-Picture%20Window%20in%20leavepictureinpicture%20event

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

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