Re: Transition request: First public working draft of WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report

Go ahead and publish,

thank you,

Philippe

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 00:19 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:
> Hello Philippe,
> 
> The WebFonts Working Group requests approval for first public working
> draft of the WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report. This is a non-normative
> deliverable which we are chartered to produce to demonstrate the need
> for a WOFF 2.0 and to document the testing that has been done while
> developing the WOFF 2.0 Specification. The latter will be a normative
> document, and will be published later (work has started on it).
> 
> The evaluation report will be updated with experimental results and
> discussion as work proceeds, to keep the normative specification short
> and clear. The Evaluation Report will eventiually transition to
> Working Group Note one WOFF 2.0 Specification becomes a W3C
> Recommendation.
> 
> Both deliverables are late. As the evaluation report explains, this
> was because we pursued a technically promising compression method
> (LZMA) which turned out to be unsuitable for standardization. We
> therefore developed, from scratch, a different compression method.
> 
> * Document title
> WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report
> 
> * URIs
> Editors draft currently at
> http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/
> but styled as FPWD due to being prepared for publication.
> Suggested shortname: WOFF20-ER
> 
> * estimated publication date
> Thurs 23 or Tues 28 depending on timing of fpwd approval
> 
> * The document Abstract and Status sections
> http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/#abstract
> http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/WOFF2ER/#status
> 
> * Record of the decision to request the transition
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2014Jan/0014.html
> 
> * This is not a delta specification. This specification is
> non-normative.
>

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:24:08 UTC