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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mitchell Reese
<projects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 1. Is there any way currently for webapps to be fullscreen when in
>>>     landscape mode? I'm talking about the notification bar disappearing
>>>     when rotating the device on it's side. There are already a couple
>>>     apps that do this (gallery, etc.) and it would be great to have this
>>>     functionality for webapps. Working on a couple games, and something
>>>     just doesn't look right with the notification bar wrong way up on
>>>     the left hand side of the device. It would be great if apps being
>>>     used in landscape mode had this functionality. Is anything like this
>>>     currently possible, or planned?
>>
>> Webapps (and web pages) that request fullscreen should hide the
>> notifications bar. This was not enabled until now because of bug
>> #1328839, but the bug has been fixed, and I submitted a change to
>> reflect that in the browser and the webapps container
>>
>> (https://code.launchpad.net/~osomon/webbrowser-app/fullscreen-workaround-1328839/+merge/237234).
>> Expect this to land soon.
>
> Great, am currently on the dev image for the RTM release, so will hopefully
> see this soon. What's the code to enable this in webapps?

Use the DOM fullscreen API in the app itself:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Using_full_screen_mode.