Re: Hosted source format?

I have questions. Is there a meeting next week?


JH



On 2024-07-11 1:04 pm, Skef Iterum wrote:
> That sounds like a good idea!
>
> The rewritten explainer may be helpful to people who were familiar 
> with where things were a year or so ago: 
> https://github.com/w3c/IFT/blob/main/IFT-Explainer.md . It's very 
> high-level but gives the basics.
>
> Skef
>
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> *From:* John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2024 12:22 PM
> *To:* Skef Iterum <siterum@adobe.com>; 3668 FONT 
> <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Hosted source format?
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> 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> <mailto:john@tiro.ca>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:03 AM
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>> <mailto: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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>> John Hudson
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> John Hudson
> Tiro Typeworks Ltdwww.tiro.com  <http://www.tiro.com/>
>
> Tiro Typeworks is physically located on islands
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> of the Snuneymuxw and Penelakut First Nations.
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John Hudson
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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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