- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:01:24 +0200
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- CC: WebFonts Working Group <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>, "vlad >> Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com>
Hello Jonathan, Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 5:47:32 PM, you wrote: > On 16/9/14 12:54, WebFonts Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> WOFF-ACTION-150: Make private data block section clear regarding >> compression >> >> http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/track/actions/150 >> >> Assigned to: Vladimir Levantovsky >> > Just to confirm here: I assume the intention is to clarify that the > private data block is NOT part of the Brotli-compressed stream, and is > NOT compressed in any way as far as the WOFF2 spec is concerned - right? Right. > (If a vendor chooses to put a Brotli-compressed block of data there, or > any other compressed format, they're of course free to do so. Yes. > But as far > as the WOFF2 spec is concerned, it's simply an opaque block of bytes > with no known format or interpretation.) > Does this match your understanding of the intent? Exactly. As i expressed it in the meeting: if I give you an sfnt font and a blob of meta and a blob of private, a woff2 encoder does not compress the private; it appends it as is. -- Best regards, Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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