Allow interaction with the second window without breaking the full-screen mode in the first?

Question

I want to create a PowerPoint presentation web presentation tool for a second monitor. I can use the HTML5 full-screen API ( example ) to put the main presentation in full-screen mode, but this does not seem to allow interacting with the controller window on another screen. Is there a way to interact with the windows of a web page on two different monitors when one of them is full screen?

Details: Chrome and Safari in OS X use their own full-screen Lion mode, which, as you know, is divided into several monitors (for example, 1 , 2 ) - all other monitors are simply grayed out and you can’t even drag the tab to another display. Firefox 11 just makes the usual full-screen window (thanks!), But when you click on any other window, the entire screen crashes.

It is so close to work, and still still ...

Answer 1

This is exactly what I'm trying to do, but nothing seems to work. I also tried using flash on the second monitor, but when it loses focus, going to monitor 1, the whole screen disappeared.

As far as I understand, this is a security issue. Fair enough .. but of course there is a way ... maybe silverlight or java?

I think you can do this in an AIR application, but I want to run this thing directly from the browser.

Answer 2

Some javascript presentation libraries, such as reveal.js , already support presentation notes, where you open the presentation on the secondary screen and set it to full screen, then open the presentation of the presenter and place it on the main screen.

Firefox has an error that turns off in full screen when it loses focus to fix this check this tip : just full-screen-api.exit-on-deactivate to false near: config.