- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:55:41 -0700
- To: 3668 FONT <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>, Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>
Two items: 1. Current thinking is to hold the face-to-face in Portland on the *afternoon* of Thursday 22 August, probably starting around one o'clock. Christopher currently has the room booked for the whole day, in case we decide we want the morning instead of or in addition to the afternoon, but if we definitely don't need it in the morning we should let him know as soon as possible, so that he can release it for other use. 2. Adam Twardoch has raised some interesting ideas on the Typedrawers forum regarding possible 'sanitisation' of OpenType sfnt data in WOFF 2.0, which I have encouraged him to outline for the working group as a basis for discussion. Unfortunately, the Typedrawers site is down at the moment, so I can't provide a link, but will do so as soon as possible. In the meantime, the basics of Adam's suggestion is that certain legacy or redundant data that is permitted in the OT/OFF spec might be identified as out-of-limits for WOFF 2.0, and hence a) provide user agents with a smaller set of variables and more strictly defined data set and b) help font developers to make smaller, targeted webfonts. It seems, at very least, something worth kicking around. JH -- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC tiro@tiro.com The criminologist's definition of 'public order crimes' comes perilously close to the historian's description of 'working-class leisure-time activity.' - Sidney Harring, _Policing a Class Society_
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