Håkon Wium Lie schreef: > Zip does two things here. First, it bundles a set of TTF files > together (often along with a README of some sorts). This is a good > thing as one font family typically consists of four different files. > Second, it applies compression. > > By using HTTP-level compression, you replace one part of zip -- how > would you replace the other? Yes, right, that makes sense. I suppose browsers adding ZIP or TAR as supported compression methods in HTTP wouldn’t really work? :) But why are they distributed as separate files anyway? Is there some technical limitation that prevents them from being combined into one big font file? Could a tool be used to combine separate fonts? Why not just add the fonts as fallbacks for eachother (so what if there are four instead of one file requests)? ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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