Optimizing your site for TV is now easier
Ever since we
launched
Google TV last October, we’ve seen web developers
optimize their sites for
TV with
amazing
results. However, designing a
10 foot UI and
implementing controls optimized for the television is still a foreign concept for most web
developers. Understanding that challenge, we’re happy to release new templates and a UI
library to make it easy for developers to optimize their sites for TV.
Google TV comes with the Chrome browser that supports familiar technologies such as
HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and Flash. Keeping this in mind, we have created
two template designs
in HTML5 and Flash that are focused on delivering video content, but equally suitable for
photos or other multimedia:
For those developers who prefer to design their own 10
foot UI, we’ve created the
Google TV Web
UI Library to enable TV friendly controls such as D-pad (up, down, left, right)
navigation. To accommodate different web developers needs, the Google TV Web UI Library is
provided in 2 different flavors;
jQuery based and
Closure based. Get started
by
downloading the
library and reading the
documentation and tutorials.
Both the templates and the library are available under the
Apache 2 license. As
always, we love to hear your feedback. Please post comments and questions on the library and
templates to our
Google TV Web Developer
Forum. Happy coding!
By Steve Hines and Daniels
Lee, Google TV Developer Relations Team
