RE: Quick WOFF 2.0 update

Hello David, and welcome to the WebFonts WG!

Thank you very much for posting the status update for WOFF 2.0 project. It is great to hear that you've made significant progress on the issues that were flagged as possible concerns at the last WG meeting (LZMA and reference decoder implementation). Now that the LZMA compression has been implemented in Java it alleviates the concern of having implementation from only a single source, and the work of the Google Chrome team on integrating the WOFF 2.0 decoder will sure make it easier to enable end-to-end validation of prototype WOFF 2.0 solution.

All, as you know our first deliverable [1] is the WOFF 2.0 evaluation report that should make it easier to make a final decision on WOFF 2.0 compression feature set / implementation and the decisions w.r.t. WOFF 2.0 recommendation work. I would like to ask you all to review the updated candidate WOFF 2.0 implementation and discuss it on the WG list.

I would also like to resume our regularly scheduled conference calls - please let me know if you are available for the call this week on Wednesday, Apr. 3rd ( I believe the regularly scheduled time slot will be 7 am Pacific / 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET).

Thank you,
Vladimir

[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/06/WebFonts/charter-2012.html


From: David Kuettel [mailto:kuettel@google.com]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:31 PM
To: public-webfonts-wg@w3.org
Subject: Quick WOFF 2.0 update

Hello fellow web font working group members,


Recently Raph passed the torch to me to aid in the effort of advancing the WOFF 2.0 specification.  I am honored to have the opportunity to work closely will all of you to advance the specification and to see Raph's creation reach the finish line -- which would be a tremendous win for web fonts and the web.  As I am new to the standardization process (my day job is running the Google Web Fonts service), please bear with me. :)


A few quick updates, with more to follow in time:


All of the Early Access fonts are now being served with the candidate WOFF 2.0 enabled (see the .css link for each):

http://www.google.com/fonts/earlyaccess


The reference WOFF 2.0 font compression tool has been updated and is now even easier to run.  The hard-coded dependency on /usr/bin/lzma had been removed via use of the SevenZip Java LZMA compression library. The tool is now pure Java with no external binary dependencies:

http://code.google.com/p/font-compression-reference<http://code.google.com/p/font-compression-reference/>


Further, we have joined forces with the Chrome team and we are working together to enable end-to-end validation of the WOFF 2.0 prototype (both support in Google Web Fonts and Chrome) sometime in the near future.


Stay tuned!

David