Re: Quick WOFF 2.0 update

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote:

>  Hello David, and welcome to the WebFonts WG!
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Thank you Vlad!

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> 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.
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We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but Raph, the team and I are very
excited to see the project advance.

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> 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.
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We will target the evaluation report next.  The early versions will likely
be quite rough, in the interest of getting feedback sooner rather than
later.

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> 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).
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Yes, this Wednesday @ 7AM PDT is perfect.  Thank you!

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> Thank you,****
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> Vladimir****
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2012/06/WebFonts/charter-2012.html****
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> *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****
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> Hello fellow web font working group members,****
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> 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. :)****
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> A few quick updates, with more to follow in time:****
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> All of the Early Access fonts are now being served with the candidate WOFF
> 2.0 enabled (see the .css link for each):****
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> http://www.google.com/fonts/earlyaccess****
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> 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:****
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> http://code.google.com/p/font-compression-reference****
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> 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.****
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> Stay tuned!****
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> David****
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