WebP support

[Kevin Rushforth]

There are no current plans to implement a new image loader for the WebP 
format. As with any new feature, if enough application developers would 
benefit from it, and if there is someone willing to drive the feature, 
then we could consider it. One caveat, though, is that it would need to 
be done without using any third-party code, since you can't contribute 
any code you don't own under the terms of the OCA, and we (Oracle) are 
unlikely to want to take on another third-party library for this 
functionality.

-- Kevin

On 4/5/2023 12:06 PM, Glavo wrote:
> As a reference, TwelveMonkeys[1] implemented WebP support for ImageIO 
> in Java.
>
> I have recently done some work on WebP support for JavaFX, but I have 
> no experience in image processing,
> and I am also busy with many other tasks. If there are experts in this 
> field willing to start implementing it in the near future,
> I would be happy that it has saved me a lot of time.
>
> Glavo
>
> [1] https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 2:50 AM Jerry Kramskoy 
> <jerry.kramskoy at musicincite.buzz> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys,
>
>     Are there plans to support WebP soon?  Lack of support means that
>     SEO is getting penalised for sites that JavaFX can load, as the
>     page load speed is often poor by comparison.
>
>     In my case, I have a music education site that becomes interactive
>     when loaded via my JavaFX application (e.g. to create a guitar
>     scale on a virtual guitar (Canvas)), but can be browsed normally
>     with none of these interactions.
>
>     WebP is becoming very important these days, especially with SEO in
>     mind.
>
>     Many thanks, Jerry Kramskoy
>
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