Michael - I tried 8.0_72-b05 running on Windows 7 and all the videos I tried on the www.youtube.com home page ran HTML5 and worked fine. This is a big step up from 8.0_66 but I can't get to an Apple Mac at the moment. John Maton
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:26 AM, John Maton <john201...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael, > I am travelling and don't have access to my Apple Mac, I can try when I > get back (5.11). > I have a friend on Ubuntu and it worked for him. > However I have just noticed I am running 8.0_72-b02 > so I will try on 8.0_72-b05 later today and let you know if that changes > anything > Regards > John Maton > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Dr. Michael Paus <m...@jugs.org> wrote: > >> This is good to know but I just gave it a try on my MacBookPro Retina >> and it failed. >> >> I opened the youtube start page and there was an add at the top >> (from Porsche :-)) which indeed played a video. Cool! >> >> But when I then clicked on the link to close the add java crashed >> completely. >> >> # >> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: >> # >> # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x000000014946489e, pid=4440, tid=87311 >> # >> # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_72-b05) (build >> 1.8.0_72-ea-b05) >> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.72-b05 mixed mode >> bsd-amd64 compressed oops) >> # Problematic frame: >> # C [libjfxmedia_avf.dylib+0x789e] >> _ZN18AVFKernelComponent18ProcessBufferListsERjRK15AudioBufferListRS1_j+0x22 >> # >> >> Obviously I'm having sticky fingers or so because I always catch all bugs >> which are lurking arround. >> Frustrating. >> >> >> >> Am 30.10.15 um 10:37 schrieb John Maton: >> >> JDK 8u72 (1.8.0_72-ea) makes a big difference here. >> Using 8u66 I was not able to see any HTML5 videos on youtube, they all >> reverted to Flash. >> 8u72 makes it all work, last time I checked I was unable to find a video >> on youtube which did not work. >> You can download 8u72 at https://jdk8.java.net/download.html >> Best regards, >> John Maton >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Dr. Michael Paus <m...@jugs.org> wrote: >> >>> Am 29.10.15 um 22:58 schrieb Brian Harris: >>> >>>> - when embedding html5 pages into fx apps, should we expect it to >>>> render/behave similar to popular browsers like chrome? I'm wondering if >>>> we >>>> can expect this to just work or if things may be a bit wonky. >>>> >>> In theory it is just Webkit and as such it should behave like any >>> popular browser >>> and in many cases it does. However, I have stumbled over several pages >>> where >>> this is not the case and sometimes it even depends on the system you are >>> running your application on. It may work on Windows but fail on a Mac >>> Retina. >>> >>> Your best bet is to just give it a try with the pages that are important >>> for you >>> and see how it behaves. >>> >>> Here are a few pages where I have problems with. >>> >>> https://www.google.com/maps - (enters "Lite-Mode" because of >>> unsupported features.) >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com - (I am not able to watch any video there. Same >>> on vimeo.) >>> >>> https://www.windyty.com - (No wind trails on MacBook Pro Retina.) >>> >>> (Tested with JDK 8u66-b17) >>> >> >> >> >
