priorities

[John-Val Rose]

I also agree that full-featured text editing functionality would be highly advantageous.

> On 3 Oct 2018, at 19:36, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I should add (I already talked about that on twitter, ...) that we are
> actively working on a PoC for the primary issue I mentioned below but I
> think the technical discussion has to happen on openjfx-dev mailing list.
> 
> Tom
> 
>> On 03.10.18 11:30, Dirk Lemmermann wrote:
>> I strongly agree with Tom and would like to add that the missing support for rich text display and rich text editing is what caused me by far the most problems in my last project. We actually had to use Swing for this part of the UI.
>> 
>> Rich text here: bold, italic, foreground, background color, sup, sub, different fonts, hyperlinks, images, tables.
>> 
>> Dirk
>> 
>>> Am 03.10.2018 um 11:17 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> For us (I speak for BestSolution and our customers who don't want their
>>> name showing up in public :-(
>>> 
>>> The following things are imporant:
>>> * Integration of Native-Rendering (OpenGL / DirectX / Metal) into JavaFX
>>> applications where all information is kept on GPU and never escapes
>>> that
>>> 
>>> * Performance (most importantly CSS)
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>>> On 03.10.18 10:56, Johan Vos wrote:
>>>> Every now and then people ask about the roadmap of JavaFX. Apart from my
>>>> general answer that the roadmap is mainly determined by the people who
>>>> contribute, here are some personal thoughts:
>>>> 
>>>> * JavaFX can be used in a large number of vertical markets, with totally
>>>> different requirements. We should be careful not to introduce
>>>> API's/features that make JavaFX a conflicting component in some markets.
>>>> 
>>>> * There are a number of third party libraries/frameworks (e.g. ControlsFX,
>>>> FlexGanttFX, e(fx)clipse, Gluon Maps,...) that provide additional
>>>> functionality. I think OpenJFX has to provide the foundation for these
>>>> specific frameworks, rather than include their functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> * hardware accelerated rendering is key. We have to keep up with recent and
>>>> future evolutions.
>>>> 
>>>> * cross-platform is key.
>>>> 
>>>> In summary, I think that we have to make sure that JavaFX provides the most
>>>> performant rendering, and the most useful API allowing third parties to
>>>> create libraries and applications on a variety of platforms.
>>>> 
>>>> - Johan
>>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Schindl, CTO
> BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH
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