Transition request: First public working draft of WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report

Hello Philippe,

The WebFonts Working Group requests approval for first public working
draft of the WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report. This is a non-normative
deliverable which we are chartered to produce to demonstrate the need
for a WOFF 2.0 and to document the testing that has been done while
developing the WOFF 2.0 Specification. The latter will be a normative
document, and will be published later (work has started on it).

The evaluation report will be updated with experimental results and
discussion as work proceeds, to keep the normative specification short
and clear. The Evaluation Report will eventiually transition to
Working Group Note one WOFF 2.0 Specification becomes a W3C
Recommendation.

Both deliverables are late. As the evaluation report explains, this
was because we pursued a technically promising compression method
(LZMA) which turned out to be unsuitable for standardization. We
therefore developed, from scratch, a different compression method.

* Document title
WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report

* URIs
Editors draft currently at
http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/
but styled as FPWD due to being prepared for publication.
Suggested shortname: WOFF20-ER

* estimated publication date
Thurs 23 or Tues 28 depending on timing of fpwd approval

* The document Abstract and Status sections
http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/#abstract
http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/#status

* Record of the decision to request the transition
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2014Jan/0014.html

* This is not a delta specification. This specification is
non-normative.

-- 
Best regards,
 Chris                          mailto:chris@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:19:30 UTC