06:52 | <annevk> | Ian Hickson: I don't think we have anything that goes outside the viewport still, except for <select> in some browsers. There has been progress on dialogs and tooltips more recently, but not outside the viewport. Just better declarative support. |
06:56 | <DerekNonGeneric> | PiP comes to my mind https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Picture-in-Picture_API |
19:00 | <Ian Hickson> | Ian Hickson: I don't think we have anything that goes outside the viewport still, except for |
19:19 | <DerekNonGeneric> | Ian Hickson: fwiw, it sounds like you are describing exactly what i linked above -- Picture in Picture (PiP) does currently escape the viewport and is planned to support arbitrary html in future https://w3c.github.io/picture-in-picture/#security-considerations |
19:20 | <DerekNonGeneric> |
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22:59 | <Ian Hickson> | interesting |
22:59 | <Ian Hickson> | could be weird to implement tooltips and drop-downs with that but i guess it could work |
23:00 | <Ian Hickson> | it'd need a bunch of extra APIs like to integrate with the windowing system for toolbars and such |