WOFF 2.0 (Brotli) Compression Update

Hello Working group,

As planned, the Google Compression team pushed out a new version of
Brotlito the open source project.  The highlights (see the previous
update for a
full list), include: simplifications to the Brotli format, decompression
speed gains for a text corpus, improved text compression (now within 3% of
LZMA), etc.

Also, the new WOFF 2.0 (w/ Brotli) conversion tool has been open sourced.

We are very eager to see the new conversion tool run over the large font
collections (Monotype, Adobe/Typekit, and more) as was done for the
LZMAbased implementation earlier.  This could be good to explore in
the
conference call today.

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

Received on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:09:05 UTC