Hosted source format?

Message ID: <w3c/IFT/pull/190@github.com>

Congratulations, all, on the working draft publication. I am encouraging 
colleagues to take the time to familiarise themselves with the 
technology and also to check whether the wording of their webfont 
license agreements might need any updates to accommodate it.

This reminds me of a query I had for Garret during the TPAC meeting in 
Vancouver. At that time, he presumed the hosted source format for IFT 
would be an uncompressed TTF or OTF file, but I pointed out that license 
agreements might be worded in such a way that webfonts need to be 
/hosted/ as WOFF2 or WOFF. Garret thought it should be possible for the 
hosted source font to be pre-compressed as WOFF2 or WOFF, then 
decompressed, subsetted, and recompressed as WOFF2 for delivery. I 
wanted to check on the status of this query, and wasn’t able to find a 
definite answer in the working draft text.

JH


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John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks Ltdwww.tiro.com

Tiro Typeworks is physically located on islands
in the Salish Sea, on the traditional territory
of the Snuneymuxw and Penelakut First Nations.

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