Re: Some Thoughts on how Backwards Compatibility could work

Ah good catch. We'll likely need to use a magic number at the start of the
response (same as what TTF, OTF, and WOFF2 do), or rely on a header being
present on the response. I'll think about it a bit more and update the doc
with a particular approach.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:55 PM Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield@apple.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for writing this up.
>
> One question that I don’t think is addressed in this document: How does
> the patch-subset-aware client know whether the response the server replied
> with is a patch-subset response or just the raw font?
>
> —Myles
>
> On Nov 16, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Garret Rieger <grieger@google.com> wrote:
>
> I wrote up some thoughts on how backwards compatibility could work for
> PFE:
> https://github.com/googlefonts/PFE-analysis/blob/backwards_compat/design/backwards_compatibility.md
>
> Let me know what you think.
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