Extending the image loading capabilities of JavaFX to support additional image formats is a recurring question that still has no good answer.
I've been working on a proposal that doesn't add any new API to JavaFX, but instead plugs into the existing `javax.imageio` API, allowing applications to use third-party libraries like TwelveMonkeys [0] to load a wide variety of image formats. The built-in JavaFX image loaders continue to be used for all supported image formats. If an image can't be loaded using one of the built-in loaders, JavaFX will probe the ImageIO registry for image readers that can load the image instead. The draft PR [1] also adds support for variable-density images like SVG. Variable-density images will be rasterized using the screen's pixel density, ensuring they are rendered at a higher resolution on high-DPI screens. The proposed feature works transparently across all JavaFX image APIs, including images referenced by stylesheets, and images contained in data-URIs. I'm interested in your opinions on whether this is a useful feature to add to JavaFX. [0] https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1093
