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Dear god I hate it when someone says you can "optimize" a site for TV or in this case "10footify", I've worked in the TV UI space for a long time and have deve
by mikeryan 16y ago
Dear god I hate it when someone says you can "optimize" a site for TV or in this case "10footify",
I've worked in the TV UI space for a long time and have developed several HTML based apps for TV. Its a completely different experience navigating with a remote as opposed to a mouse. Something as simple as a select list can be a complete bear to navigate via a cloverleaf remote.
Heck even something as simple as scrolling a page with a remote is a complete nightmare.
As long as we are navigating with a cloverleaf (w/o something like a wiimote pointer) then web pages are going to work _extremely_ poorly on the TV. On that front I have yet to find wiimote or something like an iphone mouse that performs well on a TV. As much as a pointing device "works" on the Wii, you lose a whole magnitude of pointing precision with it and I've never seen anything else that's much better.
This is completely outside of the whole content model for TV apps is such as a passive one. Reading some web content on TV is nice, but we will not be ingesting normal web content via our TV on a regular basis, we'll do what we do now with the TV on and everyone around it working on their own laptop, iPad or Smart phone.