Metrological has become somewhat averse to public showings since being gobbled up by Comcast last year. An appearance by the Dutch app aficionado during a recent webinar therefore caught our eye, where Metrological’s Greg Riker, SVP of the Americas division, alongside Sky’s Fraser Stirling, CPO, delivered an unexpected progress update on the open source Lightning Component Framework. “Lots of operators” – beyond the two main drivers Comcast and Sky – are beginning to embrace the HTML5-based Lightning framework in their ecosystems for UI development, according to Riker, speaking during a Broadband TV News webinar session this week. Indeed, the Lightning Framework is something Faultline and few other trade publications have given much time to, due to it receiving little-to-no mention…