Recently, I took an opportunity to see once again how Developer Forum would look in a vision throughout a smart television regarding the surfaces, translations, etc.
I clicked on my profile and I begin to notice that compared to small devices (i.e. tablets, phones, and computers), the images displayed on my description are not appearing, and the texts referenced as Unicode 3164 (U+3164) are not showcasing as expected (in the context of showing spaces with the illusion of creating multiple paragraphs).
Reproduction Steps
Open the Developer Forum website;
Create/Edit your topic/reply while copying an image you took in the internet and past on the description;
While adjusting the size/letting the website completely load the media, copy the link;
Go to your account’s settings (Preferences) → Profile and paste in the “About me” section;
Save all changes;
Reload the page and open the summary option.
Expected Behavior
I expected that I could be able to see the media I have linked to my biography from all devices.
Actual Behavior
In a smart television, it seems that it is not possible to view the following electronic, only simple topics and/or replies by users.
Not sure if it may be as it works fine if seeing images in replies and/or topics. I tried searching for Zomebody’s profile and the GIF (on his about me) was working normally.
Go to Google Play or sideload a different browser onto your Smart TV. To do this, download an APK file onto a USB stick. Plug it into your TV. Then, you can navigate to the file in Android to install it onto your Smart TV.
Note: Chrome only works if google play services are installed on your Android device, which I don’t think they are.
I took a few of your instructions to see if the Smart TV runs for Android/iOS/both and eventually, I couldn’t find anything, even seeing the versions of the television as well as the own browser of the electronic.
I have also tried to see if I could install any applications on the TV such as Google/Google Play, yet no results. Tried to see if an alternative could pop up by using the traditional domain of Google and searching for Developer Forum, and going into my profile to see if the images I had could load, but still remains as usual.
The only thing that I could only remember is that the Smart TV works perfectly for both iOS and Android devices if you share the screen.
In the article you linked, it says that 40% of TV viewers use social media whilst watching TV through other devices, not that they use the TV for social media:
Research shows that 40% of TV viewers use multiple devices while watching television to engage on social media.
They aren’t using their television for social media already, but that is what the article is saying large companies want to integrate into their TVs.
Reading everything, I could comprehend in another way and could only find articles based on the same concept of how smart televisions are having such an impact with social media applications linked.
My current television contains social media applications and I use most of the time, for simple instance, YouTube.
I apologize for the delay but it seemed that my notifications went nuts for some days once not checking out the forum for a bit of an hour…
I tried checking out other Discourse websites such as https://meta.discourse.com/ and https://blenderartists.org/ but it seemed that I wasn’t able to find any account with an image on their biography whether than the website telling me that my browser is “outdated” (to note, this also happens on other devices such as mobile). Although, this is unrelated in the end and so, I will say that it happens here.
I mean, the browser warning also happens on my mobile too, which is oddly. I did try to see if I could “resolve”, and it led me to a website called “BrowserHappy”…
