WebView and WebGL

[John-Val Rose]

I agree with you Michael.

So let's open a discussion as a community and actually get coding.

It won't happen otherwise...

(At least not for 4 years or so)

> On 25 Aug 2017, at 17:34, Michael Paus <mp at jugs.org> wrote:
> 
> I also find it important to get WebGL support into WebView as soon as possible
> but I fear that this is not such an easy task because there are a few things
> to consider. From my point of view, for example, it would not make much sense
> to implement WebGL exclusively in the context of the WebView. JavaFX
> itself also needs some high-performance, cross-platform low-level rendering
> engine which should be compatible with WebGL in a similar way as the JavaFX
> Canvas is compatible with the HTML 5 Canvas. But once you have such a
> cross-platform, GL compatible rendering engine you have to ask yourself why
> JavaFX still needs different internal Prism renderer implementations and would
> not just use the one cross platform engine. All this needs careful consideration.
> 
> Michael
> 
>> Am 25.08.17 um 02:12 schrieb John-Val Rose:
>> I have a couple of questions about the implementation of WebView within
>> JavaFX.
>> 
>> I understand that, at present, it is based on WebKit but does not support
>> WebGL.  For our requirements, WebGL support is essential and I expect that
>> other developers would appreciate support of this kind as well.
>> 
>> It appears that WebGL support will not be implemented until Java 10 at the
>> earliest, or, perhaps even later.  As we know, this could be several years
>> away so I would like to offer my time to work on implementing WebGL support
>> ASAP so that it can be released to the community as part of an incremental
>> Java 9 release.
>> 
>> How do you feel about this suggestion?
>> 
>> Also, could you please let me know that if the current WebView is just a
>> wrapper around WebKit and uses native WebKit rendering, or is it actually
>> using the JavaFX API itself to do the rendering within the JavaFX rendering
>> pipeline?
>> 
>> *Graciously,*
>> 
>> *John-Val Rose*
>> *Chief Scientist/Architect*
>> *Rosethorn Technology*
>> *Australia*
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