[mythtv-users] Boxee/Hulu?

[David Brodbeck]

On Mon, March 2, 2009 10:15 am, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM,  <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Exactly what constitutes a web browser in the eyes of Hulu is not
>>> clear.
>>
>> I think it is fairly clear. It is a program that renders the html/php
>> (or whatever it is that they serve up) unaltered.
>
> There's no such thing.
>
> Web browsers always reformat the display based on any number of
> conditions.  HTML is not a publication format designed to give an
> exact layout, regardless of how many web developers might try to pound
> it into that mode.

Right, but Boxee wasn't rendering the HTML at all, just snarfing up the
video.  There's a difference between reformatting something for display,
and taking it out of its original context.