Re: Telcon reminder and agenda for Wed. Sep. 25

I can't make the meeting today either.

I would like to add a point to the conversation about Brotli. I'd really
like to see some statistics on Brotli decompression on mobile platforms
and architectures compared with LZMA.

Joe


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:

> Hello Vladimir,
>
> Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 10:33:37 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I would like to spend some time tomorrow (and the remaining time we
> > have until the F2F) to discuss the F2F agenda. Our call tomorrow
> > will be held at regularly scheduled time:
>
> Unfortunately I am likely to miss the call tonight, sorry. I won't
> know if I can make todays slot until shortly before.
>
> > Proposed draft F2F agenda:
> >
> > -          Introductions
> >
> > -          Review the draft WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report;
> >
> > -          Updates on the new compression technology (comparison of
> > the compression gains, compression / decompression timing, codec /
> > algorithm changes, etc.). Decide on the final home for this spec work
> and how to proceed.
> >
> > -          Planning specification work (both for the pre-processing
> > spec and the new compression) – estimated timeline / deliverables, etc.
> >
> > -          If possible (i.e. if we have compression data to rely
> > on) – revisit the discussion on “per table” vs. “per font”
> > compression (HTTP byte range support, cost/benefit analysis, etc.).
> >
> > -          Time permitting – revisit the discussion about top level
> > media type for fonts and whether / how to proceed.
> >
>
> That agenda looks good to me.
>
> I would hope to have access to at least some
> numerical data for a woff1 to woff2-brotli comparison before the
> meeting, just to get the evaluation report more fleshed out. At
> present it just says what we are *not* doing (and why); its better if
> it has some info on what we are now doing, and to what extent that is
> better than woff1. And this would give us a better report to review at
> the f2f.
>
> Whether woff2-brotli is less good than woff2-lzma and by how much is
> interesting, but is not the primary thing we were asked to do as a
> group - improve woff1.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org
>
>
>