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

[Felix Bembrick]

Thanks Kevin.

I was more curious as to why WebGL support hasn't been there since day 1, given that WebKit itself supports it.

Felix

> On 13 May 2016, at 01:52, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/
>>>>> 
>>>>>