HEADS-UP: plan to integrate a newer WebKit into 9-dev next week.
Felix Bembrick
felix.bembrick at gmail.com
Fri May 27 12:24:28 UTC 2016
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/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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