Re: Quick WOFF 2.0 update

When the notion of WOFF 2.0 was first mooted, I believe some concerns 
were raised regarding compatibility issues and uninterrupted support of 
WOFF 1.0 webfonts alongside the new compression model. I'd appreciate 
some comment on this (from David? Raph?) and explanation of how this is 
expected to play out, and what expectations this will put on both user 
agents and fonts.

I am presuming that something like a metadata format version string will 
suffice to let user agents know which version of WOFF they are 
encountering with a given webfont. What about serving WOFFs to user 
agents with different levels of version support? What mechanism would 
enable a site to serve WOFF 2.0 fonts to one browser and 1.0 to another?

I'm sure these are all resolvable issues. I'd just like to get some idea 
of the direction in which we're heading.

JH

Received on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:05:13 UTC