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

[Kevin Rushforth]

We're too focused on JDK 9 to think about JDK 10 yet. After we stabilize 
JDK 9 we'll start planning. At that time we will solicit feedback from 
the openjfx-dev community to help prioritize.

-- Kevin


Konstantin Pasko wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>             <mailto: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
>                 <mailto: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
>                         <mailto: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
>                                 <mailto: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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>
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