Fullscreen on multiple displays?

hello everyone,
i was wondering if it is at all possible to run a game or app (such as World of Warcraft, Logic, or safari) in full screen mode just on an external display, and have my regular desktop show up on my MacBook as normal. for instance if i wanted to watch a webstream in Safari in fullscreen, or play world of warcraft in fullscreenon my external display, while i work on a paper for school, would this be possible?
ive done a little bit of research, but everything i have found so far has just been about specific apps, not a universal way to make this fullscreen/external display issue work.
thanks for your input!
~BK

nevermind... it seemed as though ive figured it out with just a bit more of messing with in app options. cant get apple's apps such as safari to be fullscreen in my second display but ill wait till apple puts out another update for that i guess. i hope they do!

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