The Immobile Web

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Device diversity gets an order of magnitude worse as SmartTVs ship from Sony LG Vizio and Samsung and rumors of an Apple TV circulate TV browsers already test surprisingly well — Google TV scores HTML5 score 343 versus an iPhone 305 and LG 302 — but input and navigation fail: d‑pad and pointer models differ, jQuery UI TV navigation and Opera SDK or Google TV emulator are the main tools for testing, Netflix already consumes 33% of US downstream and many users multitask — 88% of tablet owners use tablets while watching TV.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:25Televisions and the web
3. 13:30TV browser testing
4. 18:57Input challenges on TVs
5. 23:07Ten-foot UI design
6. 31:11TV resolutions and queries
7. 34:45Detecting TVs with JS/CSS
8. 38:36Smart TV adoption state
9. 41:26Multi-screen design context
10. 44:57Future-proofing for TVs
11. 45:47Q&A

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