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 <m...@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* > >
