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by chestnut-tree 3940 days ago
"So it's just HTML? Is there a reason (legal or otherwise) that they can't just use HTML?"

The BBC have an open source library for building apps for TV based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript called TAL: TV Application Layer. It's designed to be deployed across HTML-based TV devices.

http://fmtvp.github.io/tal/getting-started/introducing-tal.h...

Apple's tvOS is likely to have much richer functionality since it's hosted on Apple's own hardware. However, an open standard for TV apps would be a good thing.

The BBCs TAL was released as open source in March 2013. But I don't know if it's gained wider traction in the industry.