WebFonts WG status for 20 April 2012

Hello Hypertext CG,

WOFF 1.0 remains in CR, but we are now down to only one failing test (out of 291) for the user agent tests

http://w3c-test.org/framework/test/woff-ua/single/directory-4-byte-002/format/xhtml/

http://w3c-test.org/framework/results/woff-ua/

The authoring tools and woff font test suites are green across the board.

authoring tools
   CR criteria met on 24 of 24 tests
   http://w3c-test.org/framework/review/woff-at/
   three implementations  (FontSquirrel sfnt2woff woffTools)

woff files themselves
  CR criteria met
  implementations are the individual woff files
  we have a validator that tests all spec assertions,
  http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/tools/validator/ 
  and a test suit of 303 tests to exercise the validator
http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/tests/Format/Tests/xhtml1/testcaseindex.xht
  validator passes 100% of tests

The W3C testing harness has proved to be most useful for these tests.

The WOFF validator was recently extended to provide a display of font metadata, such as license and creator information. 

There has been interesting discussion on a new WOFF 2.0 proposal on www-font, which has improved compression. This is particularly useful for larger fonts such as are used for Japanese and Chinese.

The WebFonts WG plans to meet at TPAC.

-- 
 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups

Received on Friday, 20 April 2012 13:13:57 UTC