Opera Software has been delivering the Web to TV-enabled devices for many years, as part of its overall strategy to make the Web available to anybody on any device. In line with this and its support for standards Opera has been participating in a number of groups focused on TV adn Web, including OIPF and HbbTV. Opera would like to see the use of HTML on TV more closely aligned with its usage in general, and believes that an important part of that is for the relevant stakeholders to be involved in the latest development taking place at W3C. A particlar concern is the proliferation of conformance requirements developed by external organisations to show that a runtime implements HTML (or CSS, or SVG, etc). While the goal of these efforts is to ensure interoperability, poor coordination can mean that the effect is actually to require a large amount of unprofitable work irrelevant to real-world developers. Opera believes that the TV industry would be well-served by ensuring that standardisation of Web technology relevant to the TV industry is done either at W3C or in very close collaboration. We have been actively encouraging the TV industry groups with whom we work to improve their relationships and communication with W3C, and hope to see this produce demnstrable outcomes in terms of liaison agreements and better quality specifications and standards for this segment of industry. Concrete areas where improvements could be made include producing test suites for the various foundational Web specifications such as HTML5, CSS, and SVG, and harmonising definitions of conformance to these standards to ensure that testing covers functionality that matters to industry and developers rather than being a high-cost exercise that doesn't measure likely success or utility in real marketplaces. -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.comReceived on Saturday, 7 August 2010 02:08:10 GMT
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