support picture-in-picture

[vapier]

i know it doesn't exactly fit in with the scope of this extension, but how do you feel about adding support for toggling picture-in-picture ? most sites don't support this, especially as it's not been implemented in other agents yet. Chrome 70 shipped it though.

all you have to do is call the video element's requestPictureInPicture() method.

• specification
• firefox status

[igrigorik]

Interesting idea. Paging @beaufortfrancois for thoughts and opinions :-)

[beaufortfrancois]

I agree with @vapier that it's not in the scope of the extension but I'd be happy to review a PR if needed.

In the mean time, we also have published Picture-in-Picture Extension (by Google)
for this specific use case.

[igrigorik]

Ah, perfect. If there is an official extension for this.. let's defer to that! Thanks!

[vapier]

i'm aware of the pip extension, but my suggestion for this was due to:

• the pip extension operates at the page level rather than per-video
• it's one fewer extension i need to install ;)
• one fewer extension that needs to crawl the dom looking for video tags to expose custom UI

so if people are amenable to it, i'd be happy to post a PR for this extension

[igrigorik]

• the pip extension operates at the page level rather than per-video

Hmm, I guess I'm not familiar enough with the implementation but this sounds like a good feature request for the official extension?

• it's one fewer extension i need to install ;)
• one fewer extension that needs to crawl the dom looking for video tags to expose custom UI

I hear ya, but the ongoing cost of maintenance is a real burden. I would rather do one thing well, which is already keeping us plenty busy here, than multiple things poorly.