IE11 fullscreen triggered from keyboard

[mynameisstephen]

Triggering the full screen button from the keyboard (tab to then enter/space) does not enter full screen mode in IE11. No error is thrown. Triggering full screen mode via the mouse works.

[mmcc]

@gkatsev any ideas on this one?

[gkatsev]

Does it work in other browsers? I don't know what would cause it.

[mmcc]

It does work in other browsers that I've tested it on. The only guess that @heff and I have is that IE11 is strict about only honoring the fullscreen request on an actual click event. The docs seem to suggest that's not the case, but that's the only guess I've got.

To do so, you must call msRequestFullscreen from a user-initiated event, such as a button click, rather than automatically from script.

From the MSDN docs

[gkatsev]

I investigated this some more and it seems like it's a bug in IE11. Even youtube's player doesn't work.

[gkatsev]

I'm not really sure there's anything we can do for this. Should it be closed? @mmcc @heff?

[mmcc]

I normally err on the side of closing things we have no control over. Although it might still be an issue, it's not like we can do anything about it, so there's no point in having an open issue.

How about a label for "can't fix" or something? That would allow us to periodically check the intersection of "browser bug" and "can't fix" as browsers update.

[heff]

That sounds reasonable. If we can find a link to a bug report about it
somewhere that'd be good. Does IE have a bug tracker?

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I normally err on the side of closing things we have no control over.
Although it might still be an issue, it's not like we can do anything about
it, so there's no point in having an open issue.

How about a label for "can't fix" or something? That would allow us to
periodically check the intersection of "browser bug" and "can't fix" as
browsers update.

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[gkatsev]

They do: https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/Feedback

This reminds me, videojs should probably be checked out on MS Edge.

[gkatsev]

In my other issue on their tracker regarding tracks, they said they don't work on IE11, so, not sure whether it's even useful to open this issue :/
Closing since we can't do anything.