- From: Raph Levien <raph@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:09:21 -0700
- To: David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com>
- Cc: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com>, "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
Welcome also, David, and thanks for taking on this work. I regret I have had so little time to work on the format and the standards process since transferring to the Android team. I still very much believe it has potential to make web fonts faster and even more successful, and want to help however I can, considering the demands on my time. David and others (mostly on the Chrome Japan team) have been doing good work to make the test suite easier to build and experiment with. I'm fairly satisfied with the performance of the algorithm, but anything like this can benefit from independent evaluation and review. I encourage people to play with the algorithm for themselves, and either validate the experimental results we've already obtained or (more usefully!) uncover problems, which of course would be best to address now rather than later. I'm excited to see further progress, and thanks to everybody for their encouragement and support. I'm happy to see it now in David's able hands. Take care, Raph On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM, David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir > <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote: >> >> Hello David, and welcome to the WebFonts WG! > > > Thank you Vlad! >> >> >> >> 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. > > > We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but Raph, the team and I are very > excited to see the project advance. >> >> >> >> 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. > > > 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. >> >> >> >> 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). > > > Yes, this Wednesday @ 7AM PDT is perfect. Thank you! >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> 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 > >
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