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Picture-in-picture button in player bar not useful in Firefox #577

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@hypevhs

This may be more of a design discussion than a bug report

The picture-in-picture mode button doesn't do anything on Firefox.

Clicking on it does nothing but log an error since Firefox doesn't implement the HTMLVideoElement requestPictureInPicture API12. Of course I can also activate PIP other ways, like the button in the address bar, the floating button (if enabled), or a keyboard shortcut.

My suggestion: what do you think about hiding the button if the PIP web API is unavailable3?

In any case, thanks for working on Broadcast Box! it's been a wonderful alternative to discord screensharing for my friends and me

Footnotes

  1. https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_htmlvideoelement_requestpictureinpicture

  2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463402

  3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/pictureInPictureEnabled

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