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

[Felix Bembrick]

Any comments on this? Isn't it time to move to Blink?

> On 13 May 2016, at 04:32, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>