TV Centric websites

[Tom Clerckx]

Hi all,

I've been working with web2py for a few months now and I must say: I'm a big fan.

Nowadays, I'm looking more into building TV-centric sites and I was wondering if this is/will be supported in web2py.

I'm talking about websites that you can directly load on the browser of a TV or set top box and that are designed for the TV set.

Good examples of such site are:

http://gtv.uinterview.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/gtv/

It's important that the UI is made to run full-screen and the navigation can be done using solely arrow-keys and the enter key (which map to the remote control arrow-keys and OK key)

If this is/will be supported I would be very interested.

Other suggestions are very welcome as well.

Best regards,

Tom.

[Massimo Di Pierro]

I do not think there is any real issue here. You can create web applications with web2py that runs in a TV browser. It is mostly a matter of choosing a layout that fits the screen size and restrict to JS libraries that are supported by TV browsers. 

In fact any web2py app will run on a TV browser.

I would recommend reading this: https://developers.google.com/tv/web/

It has some good tips about themes, css and js libraries that work well with google tv and probably with other tvs.