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

[Konstantin Pasko]

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/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>