- From: Roderick Sheeter <rsheeter@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:51:47 +0000
- To: WebFonts WG <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CABscrrF0aTu1kyhpuusoT8eR_PhcJ3P+-F5pQ2kUt2dz=JAKDg@mail.gmail.com>
Direct from irc because the robots weren't yet awake. Tl;dr due dilligence w/legal takes time, Vlad is going to pursue a draft charter. 07:14 RSheeter: Vlad: Test issue is resolved, it's just a bad test 07:17 RSheeter: Vlad: and NOW welcome to the wooorld of the future! 07:17 RSheeter: Vlad: Monotype & Google are happy to proceed with The Project Formerly Known as Streaming and let the IP breathe free 07:18 RSheeter: KenLunde: Adobe is still doing it's due dilligence w/legal 07:20 RSheeter: Vlad: (implications of commitment wrt W3C IP policy) 07:21 KenLundeADBE: (BTW, I need to drop off at 30 minutes past the hour—about 10 minutes from now—so that I can drive my daughter to school.) 07:25 RSheeter: Vlad: What about Adobe and Microsoft? 07:26 RSheeter: (both: doing due dilligence still) 07:26 KenLundeADBE: s/Adobe/Apple/ 07:27 RSheeter: Oops. Can't handle words pre-coffee. 07:27 RSheeter: ned: it would be helpful to have a clearer picture of what we want to do 07:27 RSheeter: vlad: maybe that's a preliminary charter 07:29 KenLundeADBE: I am dropping off in a minute or two. 07:31 RSheeter: vlad: initial discussion was of a "blessed" js library for font things, potentially more APIs to interact w/browser 07:33 RSheeter: rsheeter: we're eager to see a fully baked into browser solution, e.g. this font-face says "stream from here" and the browser handles it w/o having to deliver any js to client 07:33 RSheeter: vlad: (but ofc details largely tbd) 07:36 RSheeter: present+ 07:36 RSheeter: vlad: sounds like a draft charter is our next step 07:39 Vlad: http://www.w3.org/2012/06/WebFonts/charter-2012.html 07:43 RSheeter: I saw http://typedrawers.com/discussion/2601/otvar-variable-font-support-in-microsoft-edge#latest, awesome! 07:43 sergeym: Microsoft variable fonts intro: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/03/13/bringing-expressive-performant-typography-to-microsoft-edge-with-variable-fonts/#q8AOVS4A6IxrBpKD.97 07:44 ned: https://design.google/library/new-wave-indian-type-design/ 07:46 RSheeter: While we're on the subject, we have Korean now https://design.google/news/google-fonts-launches-korean-support-and-unveils-faster-delivery-system/ 07:47 RSheeter: vlad: sick dudes! I'm gonna go write a draft charter 07:48 RSheeter: vlad: no calls for the time being
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