Re: TypeCon meeting update ; WOFF 2.0 sanitisation?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

1PM on Thursday the 22nd is perfect.  Thank you John and Christopher!
 Looking forward to the opportunity for us to all meet in person.

>
> 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.


Typedrawers seems to be up again.  Here is a direct link to the post:

http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/5210/#Comment_5210

I would agree with you John, this could make for a great discussion at the
meeting on August 22nd, and further, that a set of recommendations for
better web fonts (without the legacy bloat) would be a great thing.  Even
if completely decoupled from the W3C WOFF 2.0 specification.