HTML5 media applications could be the way to enable universal apps across all TVs and other CE devices. However, app developers in the streaming industry have turned to proprietary native application development to ensure their apps perform well on TVs and other CE devices. This may result in slower development and release cycles as development teams need to customize their native TV application for each CE platform. This also may slow innovation because it necessitates verifying enhanced streaming services across multiple devices.
There are ways to address performance concerns while still leveraging web technologies. Some current web browsers support rendering and computing solutions beyond basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript that approach native application speeds and offer developers more control and flexibility in resource management with WebAssembly or WebGL toolsets. Other potential approaches are web-based MiniApp frameworks that run inside Super Apps and provide a mix of native and web-based components, or browsers, such as Cobalt, that support a limited but useful set of features.
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