CE-HTML

CE HTML page

CE-HTML is a language for creating user interface pages for Consumer Electronics (Consumer Electronics or CE) devices such as televisions .

CE-HTML is part of the CEA-2014 standard (Web4CE), which was defined as part of the Consumer Electronics Association .

features

CE-HTML consists of the following Internet languages:

ECMA -262, 3rd edition
XHTML 1.0 Transitional / Strict
CSS TV Profile 1.0
XMLHttpRequest (Ajax)
DOM level 2
A number of extensions for the CE devices.

history

CE-HTML was formulated as part of the Consumer Electronics Association R7WG9 working group - consisting of a number of CE manufacturers - to answer the problem of displaying web pages on a device that does not have the characteristics of a typical personal computer produce.

CE devices have problems with the display of Internet pages if they have the following typical characteristics:

small text and pictures that cannot be read from a distance.
Navigable only with the mouse or keyboard but not with the remote control .
no highlight on the navigable elements.
incompatible browser extensions ( DOM -0 / legacy DOM).
Non-standard audio / video codecs .
proprietary extensions such as Adobe Flash .

application

CE-HTML code is increasingly used by various standardization organizations such as the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF). CE-HTML is used in practice, for example, on televisions with HbbTV and / or Internet Protocol Television (IPTV).

Philips already launched the first televisions that use the CE HTML standard with the so-called Net TV function in Europe in April 2009.

Example for CE HTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"ce-html-1.0-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>CE-HTML</title>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('myvid').play(1);">
CE-HTML a/v object:<br/>
<object type="video/mp4" id="myvid" data="myvideo.mp4" width="640" height="480"></object>
</body>
</html>