WebKit dropped: Google and Opera move to "Blink"

[John Smith]

> Webkit engine feels slow and tries hard to render webpages strangely.

I did some benchmarks on WebView a while back and it's performance and rendering capabilities were, in most cases for the benchmark tests I tried, perfectly acceptable for today's web pages.
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10762979/performance-of-webview-in-javafx

Do you have specific pages or benchmarks where WebKit is slow or renders strangely?
(I have found some in the past and logged them as issues and in most cases those issues were fixed by the WebView/JavaFX team).

One anomaly was that the 64 bit JavaScript engine (I believe) did not run with JIT switched on - which made it much slower than the 32 bit JavaScript engine.  That is an anomaly which (I hope) will be fixed when WebKit switches to use the Nashorn JavaScript engine (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/), though recent discussions on the webkit mailing list may cast some doubt on that assumption (http://mac-os-forge.2317878.n4.nabble.com/Deleting-V8-bindings-was-Cleaning-House-td214392.html).

> Will we ever see something like the platform specific browser in JavaFX?

I'm (wildly) guessing that if WebView ends up being supported on iOS, that might occur through wrapping the iOS Safari control rather than the ported JavaFX specific webkit engine modifications - but I doubt such a thing would happen anytime soon as there is no roadmap for such support and any initial iOS implementation for JavaFX is likely to go out without WebView support.

- John

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Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 5:06 AM
To: Felix Kugel
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Subject: Re: WebKit dropped: Google and Opera move to "Blink"

Related question: Will we ever see something like the platform specific browser in JavaFX? Or is this a WONT_HAPPEN?
I am not a particular fan of the huge embedded WebKit engine. Don't get me wrong: the idea itself is great and everything, but so far the Webkit engine feels slow and tries hard to render webpages strangely.

Cheers,
~ Philipp Dörfler

Am 06.04.2013 um 13:53 schrieb Felix Kugel <f.kugel at gmail.com>:

> http://blog.oio.de/2013/04/05/the-web-starts-to-blink-chrome-drops-webkit-as-its-rendering-engine-announces-blink/
> 
> Will JavaFX follow?
> 
> Greets to all,
> Felix Kugel