Its really annoying and alarming to hear technical people rebut this with "Well I could tell the difference because I noticed my browser changed and my super customized desktop settings weren't reproduced, and plus it says "now in full screen mode", etc.". Its alarming because this type of response just goes to show that the people creating things for the web are so completely out of touch with real users. There's this weird idea among developers that users know how to use technology just like we do when in fact they don't even know which website handles their email half the time, think Google is the internet, use the browser search bar to type full URLs even though the actual address bar is 10 pixels to the left, and will blame you for giving them a virus because you changed their desktop wallpaper and not because of all those shady links to foreign lotteries they were clicking in their email which they were lucky to find in the first place.
Yeah, you can tell the difference. I could tell the difference. Yes it was very obvious even though the demo was very accurate in reproducing my browser's chrome. But the rest of the world is nothing like us. Feross says 10% will be tricked. I think that's a very conservative estimate. I wouldn't be surprised is the numbers went above 50%. If this sort of attack becomes common then I bet you anything that the majority of users will be tricked just because full screen is not very common. You'll say full screen is common but again, you're thinking of people just like you who are in the minority. Most people have never seen a website in full screen mode. Even with Facebook's full screen option it doesn't mean your parents are clicking that option or have even noticed it yet.
I'm actually building an app currently that greatly benefits from the full screen API and I really hope vendors don't start putting more restrictions on it. Instead I'm hoping there's a way to make full screen more common in legitimate ways, get users used to full screen mode so they are aware of it and know what the little "Now in full screen mode" dialog means. Sure, people will still get tricked but I'd bet it would be in far less numbers and that 10% figure Feross throws out there might become more realistic.
Yeah, you can tell the difference. I could tell the difference. Yes it was very obvious even though the demo was very accurate in reproducing my browser's chrome. But the rest of the world is nothing like us. Feross says 10% will be tricked. I think that's a very conservative estimate. I wouldn't be surprised is the numbers went above 50%. If this sort of attack becomes common then I bet you anything that the majority of users will be tricked just because full screen is not very common. You'll say full screen is common but again, you're thinking of people just like you who are in the minority. Most people have never seen a website in full screen mode. Even with Facebook's full screen option it doesn't mean your parents are clicking that option or have even noticed it yet.
I'm actually building an app currently that greatly benefits from the full screen API and I really hope vendors don't start putting more restrictions on it. Instead I'm hoping there's a way to make full screen more common in legitimate ways, get users used to full screen mode so they are aware of it and know what the little "Now in full screen mode" dialog means. Sure, people will still get tricked but I'd bet it would be in far less numbers and that 10% figure Feross throws out there might become more realistic.