I found the flag to disable it, but I’m really curious why the decision was made in the first place. On Chrome and Firefox, l If you double click this example HTML5 : https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp, it will go full screen. I’ve always wondered why sometimes click on a video would make it go fullscreen, it’s laggy and annoying for me, even on high-end laptops. On My Mac, as well as in Windows and Fedora VMs.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    65·
    10 months ago

    It’s been standard behavior in many video players since before browsers supported video at all.

  • juli@programming.dev
    301·
    10 months ago

    Double clicking the titlebar makes a window big as well. Has always been like that. It’s just a convenient shortcut.

    Got an alternative?

  • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    Because otherwise you’re just rapidly starting then stopping the video. What else would you have it do?

  • ratman150@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    10 months ago

    It was probably done to accommodate both mouse and keyboard users and touchscreen users.

    Never had an issue with it though.