Re: TypeCon Presentation Draft

On 5 August 2010 15:24, Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com> wrote:
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>               - Because of the per table compression, a browser can download all or only part of the WOFF.
>                       - ** This is purely hypothetical. Any better examples? **

I think this is a GREAT example - because the idea is worthy of
implementation and if font publishers and web developers understand
the idea and ask browser developers to implement it, they will, but if
no one understands that this will be possible then the browser
developers may not implement it.

So yes, please do include this in the presentation and bill it has a
instrumental reason why WOFF _can_ be "better" than TTF/SVG/EOT.

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>                               - This would be useful to web developers‚ "What font is that?"

This would also be useful for web users who may also ask, "What font is that?"

>      - Private data.
>                - This is entirely up to the creator of the WOFF.
>                - We don't know what it will be used for, but we know
>       that we have needed this kind of thing in other formats in the past.

This private data is ignored by web browsers, AIUI, and I think that's
an important detail worth mentioning.

Received on Tuesday, 10 August 2010 01:32:22 UTC