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Re:Apple TV Markup Language by wvenable on Thursday September 10, 2015 @02:41PM (#10199780)
Implementing this with WebKit would be massive overkill; I'd say it's quite unlikely it's implemented with it.
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Re:Apple TV Markup Language by tcdent on Thursday September 10, 2015 @03:33PM (#10200058)
If you implemented a web-like runtime from the ground up, you're saying you would write it from scratch?

The runtime has JavaScript support, it does not have a brand new interpreter.

The runtime has CSS support, it does not have a brand new interpreter.

The runtime has HTML/XML syntax. Why would they write a brand new interpreter?

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Re:Apple TV Markup Language by wvenable on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:23PM (#10200332)
Because the XML syntax maps directly onto UI components; introducing an HTML canvas is vastly more complicated than that.

Mappping XML to a small subset of UI objects is so simple you don't really need to pull in an entire browser runtime for it.

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