Re: Firefox "Intent to Implement" WOFF2

On 3/10/14 18:46, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:37 PM, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com
> <mailto:tiro@tiro.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jonathan,
>
>     Out of interest, are you writing your own Brotli decoder, or using
>     open source code from Google?
>
>
> Using Google one I believe.

That's correct.

>
>     I wonder because some of my colleagues have expressed concern about
>     the single implementation of Brotli compression/decompression, as
>     compared with the variety of libraries available for handling WOFF1
>     gzip. They wonder how robustly tested is the Google code, given how
>     new Brotli is? Also, has it undergone security reviews?

I feel reasonably sure the Google team will be doing security reviews 
and testing; and Mozilla will undertake its own review and testing as 
well before we consider enabling the feature on the release channel. 
Timescale for this? I don't know at this point.

JK

Received on Friday, 3 October 2014 18:28:56 UTC