whatwg/webidl

Indicate that thing needs user action to work

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#137 opened on Jul 21, 2016

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Description

There are things in the platform that can only succeed because of some user action. For example, directly calling:

document.body.requestFullscreen();

In Gecko, results in the following warning:

⚠️  Request for fullscreen was denied because Element.requestFullscreen() 
was not called from inside a short running user-generated event handler.

Would it be useful to have some means of annotating such behavior using WebIDL?

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Research direction
Research existing WebIDL annotations for user action requirements and propose a syntax in the spec.
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Domain
apiweb dev
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
Prerequisites
WebIDL
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40