Re: Hosted source format?

I guess things have moved quite a bit from my previous understanding of 
IFT. Maybe we can schedule a ‘How to explain IFT to font developers and 
vendors’ session in an upcoming meeting?


JH



On 2024-07-11 12:02 pm, Skef Iterum wrote:
> John -
>
> The current specification allows for some dynamic subsetting but is 
> focused on pre-computed files. Therefore the typical files on the 
> client side would be "initial" subsetted font files (which would 
> generally be in WOFF2 format with a couple of added tables) and 
> patches (which are their own format but typically compressed with brotli).
>
> Skef
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> *From:* John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:03 AM
> *To:* 3668 FONT <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Hosted source format?
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> 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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