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I took a look at the SDK when I bought my Samsung TV. It seems very bizarre because there are 3 different ways you can write an app: HTML4/CSS2 (no, really.),
by apaprocki 15y ago
I took a look at the SDK when I bought my Samsung TV. It seems very bizarre because there are 3 different ways you can write an app:
HTML4/CSS2 (no, really.), Flash (ugh.), Lua/SDL (supposedly more for games than apps..)
I'm sure $100,000 will tempt someone, but browsing the SDK really reinforced in my head that hardware companies don't do a great job at software. I'm not sure quite how they wound up with this software stack, but it would have made a lot more sense to me if they embedded Gecko and had a single way to access the TV API and write HTML5/CSS3 apps.
- nl 15y agoThat's not true - or maybe you have an older TV? I think they changed platforms about 12 months ago. The current platform looks like this: HTML 5/DOM 2/CSS 3/Javascript 1.8/Flash 10.1 [1] As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't think their HTML 5 video implementation works properly and you need to use Javascript instead, but basically they have done what you want (except I think it is Webkit, not Gecko) [1] http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322543979047 http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322...
- apaprocki 15y agoIt looks like the switch just happened then. Looking at the SDK 2.5 documents post on the forum, somewhere around 2011-7-29. I'm glad they sorted that out, then.. I'll have to take a peek to see if they cleaned up the experience.