WOFF 2.0 (Brotli) Compression Update

Hello Working group,

We are thrilled to announce that the Google Compression team posted a
draft specification for the BrotliCompression Algorithm to the open
source project over the holiday!

https://code.google.com/p/font-compression-reference/source/browse/brotli/brotlispec.txt

In preparing the specification, the team simplified the Brotli format,
improved the compression further and increased the decompression speed
for a text corpus (as reported earlier).  Further the team has been
working on a set of conformance tests for Brotli.

In regards to which standardization track to explore for Brotli (e.g.
IETF RFC vs. IETF Standard vs. ISO Standard), we met internally and
discussed the options.  The compression team is leaning towards
starting with an IETF RFC, and is eager to know if that would be
sufficient for WOFF 2.0 standardization via the W3C.

On other fronts, I have fallen behind on starting a proposal for a new
top-level font mime type.

Thank you,
David (on behalf of the extended team)

Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:49:37 UTC