Re: Phone Conferences

On Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:53:04 PM, Tal wrote:

TL> On May 4, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:

>> 4. AOB (please send you suggestions to the list in advance)

TL> One thing that I have been thinking about is a WOFF validator.

That would be a great idea. For one thing, it allows us to check that different tools are all producing valid WOFF files. In other words it allows testable conformance criteria on software that produces WOFF files, (as well as testing software that renders text using WOFF e.g. browsers)

TL> However, I don't know if it is within the scope of our charter or
TL> if it is something that the W3C would be interested in. 

It is. For reference, the charter is here
http://www.w3.org/2009/08/WebFonts/charter.html

Note among the success criteria:

>     * Authoring, conversion and utility tools for WOFF

> The Working group should encourage implementations, and engage in dialogue with implementors, but is not expected to be the sole source of implementations.

and in the other deliverables, testing WOFF rendering and testing WOFF producers are separately listed

>    *  Test suites for WOFF
>    * In collaboration with CSS SVG and XSL Working Groups, test suite for WebFonts
>    * Monitoring implementation of and conformance to the above specifications
>    * An implementation report


It also says (my emphasis)

> The group may also produce outreach and tutorial material, notes, demos *and tools* as it deems appropriate.

TL> For what
TL> it is worth, I wrote a validator as we were developing the WOFF
TL> spec [1] and I would be happy to turn it over to the W3C, adapt it and help maintain it.

Woohoo!

TL> [1]
TL> http://code.typesupply.com/browser/packages/woffTools/trunk/Lib/woffTools/tools/validate.py



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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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