JavaFX provides a non-GUI component capable of loading HTML5 content, called the WebEngine API (javafx.scene.web.WebEngine). This API is basically an object instance of the WebEngine class to be used to load a file containing HTML5 content. The HTML5 file could be loaded from a local file system, a web server, or from inside a JAR file.

When a file is loaded using a web engine object, a background thread is used to load the file content to not block the JavaFX application thread.

The following are two WebEngine methods for loading HTML5 content:

JavaFX provides a GUI WebView (javafx.scene.web.WebView) node that can render HTML5 content onto the Scene graph. A WebView node is basically a mini-browser that is capable of responding to web events and allows a developer to interact with the HTML5 content.

Because of the...