Webvision Notes: Web on the box
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Daniel Davis – opera
Thu, May 26 10:45 am – 11:00 am
Transitioning pages to work well on a TV is a lot of work.
Why? The remote is a horrible input device. For: Text, navigation.
Reading text from across the room.
But, wait these are the same problems on mobile! Try simply updating your mobile site for the tv.
- scale the page using CSS transforms?
- or, just the text.
- can’t rely on CSS tv media type
- use media queries. @media(max-width:600px)
- for TV: width 1920 height 1080
Or 1280 and 720 then font 2.5em. This covers most TVs.