>From your message, it sounds like HbbTV is still not an open standard. I'm skeptical that we should support closed standards in WebKit.
Adam On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Mark Toller <mark.tol...@samsung.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'd like to ask the Webkit developers their opinion on providing some > support for HbbTV [1] within Webkit. Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV or > "HbbTV", is a major new pan-European initiative aimed at harmonising the > broadcast and broadband delivery of entertainment to the end consumer > through connected TVs and set-top boxes. The HbbTV standard is proving to > be very popular, TVs and STBs supporting HbbTV are shipping in huge numbers > throughout Europe. HbbTV is built on top of OIPF [2], which in turn is > based on portions of CE-HTML [3]. > > > > Our lab, Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI), has been heavily > involved in HbbTV and our current solution is based on Webkit. We would like > to provide our changes back to the community. > > > > I know that support requests for CE-HTML have been briefly touched upon in > the past. As I understand it, the main objection to providing support within > WebKit is that the CE-HTML specification is not freely available, and thus > restricts the number of developers who can fully understand it and therefore > provide fixes / support. > > > > In reality, much of the CE-HTML specification simply profiles which parts of > the W3C standard behaviour are mandatory, optional and/or recommended. OIPF > then profiles CE-HTML (dropping some requirements, extending others to match > W3C/HTML5), HbbTV profiles out even more of CE-HTML. > > > > Other parts of OIPF and CE-HTML do not need to be implemented within Webkit > itself. Some can be implemented as object plugins (e.g. AV Control and local > video), while others, such as the JavaScript classes required, can be > inserted into the JavaScriptCore at runtime. > > > > What I propose is to provide the basic support required within Webkit in > order to at least load the XHTML portions of HbbTV applications and provide > the correct key handling to drive them. In order to provide 'full' HbbTV > support, implementations would need to provide the plugins and additional > JavaScript classes to complete the picture. > > > > For instance, by simply adding support for the document mime type handling > of application/vnd.hbbtv.xhtml+xml and application/ce-html+xml, many HbbTV > applications will load and display the main page, and several will also > correctly navigate around the application correctly. > > > > Regards, > > > > Mark. > > > > [1] Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV - http://www.hbbtv.org/ > > [2] Open IPTV Forum - http://www.oipf.tv/ > > [3] CEA, CEA-2014-A, Web-based Protocol Framework for Remote User Interface > on UPnP Networks and the Internet (Web4CE) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
