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

[Kevin Rushforth]

It was an issue of resources versus priority and scope. JDK 9 is focused 
on Jigsaw modularity and a few other minor features. It is more of a 
"smoothing out" release than a big feature release (except for Jigsaw). 
We expect JDK 10 to be a somewhat more feature-oriented release.

-- Kevin


Felix Bembrick wrote:
> 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/
>>>>
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