Hi
Before posting this I tried to see if there were similar postings, I did find....
any method for fullscreen in ipad/iphone?
...but my enquiry is regarding the safari desktop browser running the JS viewer and some of this thread was not clear to me, in particular the term "fullscreen" has been used to mean different things.
To save confusion over definitions of full screen may I suggest the following terms?
1. "Pano full screen" - the panorama occupies the available physical screen (the browser menu and frame is not visible)
2. "Browser full screen" - the browser occupies the available physical screen but the panorama is smaller dependent on the browser menu bar, frame, sliders and so on.
3. "Pano full browser" - the panorama grows to fill the browser window but the browser itself does not change size, the browser may or may not be "browser full screen".
I suppose we can combine the last two in various combinations.
"Browser full screen - Pano full browser" - ( pano div is expanded to fill available browser window, other window content such as webpage text is displaced and not visible until the pano is switched back to its former size ).
"Browser full screen - Pano partial browser" - ( pano div is displayed smaller than available browser window, other content such as webpage text may appear ).
I have embedded panos in divs ( for example ) 600 pixel by 400 pixel ( for use on laptop and desktops ) so the pano is by default surounded by text and other
media on the webpage, I am using... switch(fullscreen) ... to go fullscreen.
The behaviours are different for flash and JS viewers...
case 1/ The flash viewer gives "Pano full screen" - the entire physical screen is given over to the panorama - this is the result I want.
case 2/ The JS viewer ( running on Safari on a laptop ) only delivers type 3 which is not really "full screen" but rather "Pano full browser", if my browser is sized
smaller than the screen then the effect is considerably less dramatic and less emersive than in case 1 but even if my browser is full screen, the impact and clutter
of the browser menu and other bits and pieces significantly detracts (in my opinion) from the full immersive feel that the flash version gives.
I was a little disapointed with what I observed for the JS viewer, I think the true "pano full screen" that I see with the flash version is much more immersive and therefore impressive to customers.
I do not want to start another thread on the future of Flash but I do consider the HTML5 future of krpano with considerable interest since I am delivering panoramas
for clients and a commercial situation demands forwards thinking on this matter even if the scare mongers are wrong.
I appreciate that HansNyb has mentioned "workarounds" for Safari but this relies on the user performing a set of steps which is not really what I have in mind.
So my questions are...
1. Is true "Pano full screen" (definition 1) available for the JS viewer running on a html5 desktop browser such as safari ( without HansNybs workarounds )
2. If not then is it a future development that might be considered?
Perhaps respondents could use the definitions I have suggested or provide better ones as any discussion of "full screen" is apt to mis-understandings
unless we have common terminology?
"Pano full screen" / "Browser full screen" / "Pano full browser"
Kind regards
Jonnie