HEADS-UP: plan to integrate a newer WebKit into 9-dev next week.

[Felix Bembrick]

Do you mind if I ask what the rationale behind such a decision is?

From an admittedly perhaps totally ignorant outside observer, it would seem to me that any cost/benefit analysis would basically put this feature in the "no brainer" category and should have been implemented at the very least since JFX 8.

> On 12 May 2016, at 01:11, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> No. WebGL support is not planned for JDK 9. We will look at this for JDK 10.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Felix Bembrick wrote:
>> Will this new WebKit finally support WebGL?
>> 
>> Just by supporting WebGL in the JavaFX WebView will instantly enable an entire new set of 3D features and access to a plethora of JavaScript 3D libraries for "free".
>> 
>> And, Google Maps will finally work too.
>> 
>>  
>>> On 11 May 2016, at 08:20, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> As a heads-up, we plan to push an updated WebKit to FX 9-dev early next week [1]. If there are no build problems, they will be integrated to 9 master the following week for jdk-9+119. We then plan to backport the newer WebKit (to keep them in sync) to 8u-dev a couple weeks later.
>>> 
>>> The only new tool needed to build this is CMake [2] version 3.4 or later (we will use 3.4.1 to build).
>>> 
>>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>>> 
>>> -- Kevin
>>> 
>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156698
>>> 
>>> [2] http://cmake.org/
>>> 
>>>