Cart before the horse. You want to bring the web to the ten foot user experience NOT the other way around. The iPhone App model is successful because native a

Cart before the horse. You want to bring the web to the ten foot user experience NOT the other way around. The iPhone App model is successful because native applications make HTTP requests and custom render the results rather than just rendering HTML. You need native applications in the living room because you need performance. You are competing with the XBox 360 and Sony PS3. An HTML web browser will not cut it. Next up is input. Rendering HTML that works with mouse/keyboard, and multitouch, and remote/gamepad in the living room seems like it will have way too many compromises. Wordpress/WPTouch works because it focuses mainly on websites with content and not Apps in general. Start backwards. There is a person sitting on a couch ten feet away from a display. His/her significant other is on the couch, too. What is this person holding in their hands? How is this input device communicating with the display? How does this display send network requests to a server?