- From: Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:01:31 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:44 PM, John Daggett wrote: > I was surprised that the issue of compression came up several times > during the Typecon web fonts panel discussion [2] but no one pointed > out > that general gzip compression is available for all web content. > Several > folks presented the somewhat distorted view that standard TTF/OTF > fonts > have to be served uncompressed while EOT fonts can be compressed. > This > seems to be a persistent misconception. I actually didn't know that, John, so thanks. (Not paying close-enough attention the subject, obviously.) Of course we don't worry as much about external font compression, since subroutinized CFF has decent inherent compression. -Christopher
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