As Steven Herod linked to, here's Richard Bairs (Java Client Architect) response (see the last comment):
Cay, I have to agree! Which is why we have not developed a windows version in isolation of everything else — or even first!. I develop only on a Mac, and have done so for the past 3 years. As many developers here work on Mac as work on Windows, and a number are on Linux. Gerard Ziemski, who designed the initial version of Glass (our windowing layer replacing AWT) works only on a Mac and writes and maintains the Cocoa code. The first platform Glass came up on was a Mac, and was subsequently ported on Windows (and differences between Mac and Windows were at that time worked through). The guys working on the windows version are also the AWT maintainers who for years have wanted another go at it to fix the problems of AWT. We’re really very well versed in these problems :-) . As for media, it sounds like there is some documentation which needs addressing. We are using gstreamer for the media framework, which as I’m sure you are aware is really quite widely adopted and works well on multiple platforms. Now, I’m not prepared to make a statement on timetables or on why the windows 32-bit is the only one released at this first beta. But do bear in mind, we’re releasing a new beta build every 2 weeks. This isn’t a release candidate! It is a snapshot in time which represents a certain level of development and a certain level of testing. -- Jonathan On May 31, 1:36 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > This may also help out on the cross platform question: > >http://fxexperience.com/2011/05/is-javafx-2-0-cross-platform/ > > Yes, in the sense that the answer is "Not at the moment and we can't tell > you when". > > Obviously, we can't know if Oracle is being truthful when they say that > JavaFX will be cross platform at some undetermined time in the future, but > we can definitely draw some conclusions from the fact that they chose to > release a Windows-only version first: this is the clear sign that the > development process of JavaFX is not multi platform. > > Which should be a concern to everyone with an interest in that field and > quite reminiscent of the disaster that happened with AWT fifteen years ago. > > Myself, I just can't understand why there's still even a tiny amount of > people who are interested in JavaFX after Sun proved for fifteen years that > they just weren't very good at this UI framework stuff. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
