Certain HTML <video>
videos always open in full screen and cannot be played inline at all. It's not clear what the criteria is for this (the playsinline
attribute seems to be respected), but the same videos play inline in Safari.
Here is an example right from the MDN <video>
page in Orion, where tapping play opens the video full screen, and exiting full screen stops the video:
...and in Safari, where the video plays inline when tapped and only opens in full screen after explicitly tapping the full screen button:
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