It was a project started just before 11 was announced along with javafx's removal. Being removed meant any install on clients machines would be problematic (po

It was a project started just before 11 was announced along with javafx's removal. Being removed meant any install on clients machines would be problematic (possibly why it was removed) So the project was reassessed, and everything that was going to use javafx was replaced with webkit/html5/css/js which was expected to be and turned out to be much easier to deploy and far far more portable.