Re: Possible Names for the "supports" token for PFE

+1 for incremental

> On Jan 25, 2021, at 4:35 PM, Garret Rieger <grieger@google.com> wrote:
> 
> At today's meeting we discussed some possible names that might be used for the "supports" token in CSS @font-face when specifying a URL which supports progressive font enrichment. For those who haven't seen the supports syntax before:
> 
> @font-face {
>   ...
>   src: url(myfont.ttf) format(truetype supports <technology>);
> }
> 
> Here's the list of names for <technology> that were mentioned at today's meeting, along with my thoughts on them:
> incremental
> My current favourite, describes pretty well what will be happening.
> progressive
> Draws parallels to progressively loaded images, however may have the incorrect connotation that you get a less good very of the font at first which is later improved upon.
> streaming
> Possibly implies that the transferred font is not retained between uses. Also streaming doesn't quite correctly describe the operation of patch/subset. Though it does work well for range request.
> augmentation
> This potentially has the same issues as progressive.
> enrichment
> This potentially has the same issues as progressive.
> partial
> This potentially has the same issues as progressive.
> What are your thoughts? Also please add other ideas for possible names to this thread if you have any additional ones.