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

Konstantin Pasko paskokv at gmail.com
Fri May 27 13:10:39 UTC 2016


Hi Kevin,

sorry for the offtopic, but as you just mentioned JDK 10, could you please
tell us what is planned for that release?
Something from the high level? New/missing features, controls, huge
bugfixes?
Googling "javafx road map" or "javafx jdk10" gives no results and looking
through https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/projects/JDK/versions/16302 is quite
time-consuming.


With best regards,
Konstantin

2016-05-27 14:51 GMT+02:00 Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>:

> No, I don't have anything further to add about WebGL, if that's what you
> are asking.
>
> As for moving to Blink, that would be a very large effort. We do not
> currently plan to do this for JDK 10, but could reevaluate it in the future
> if something changes.
>
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Felix Bembrick wrote:
>
>> 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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