Re: Webfont compression

Laurence Penney wrote:

> For anyone else running tests and gathering stats, be advised that 
> GIDZipTest, the compression testing site I mentioned[1], does not follow 
> redirects and needs to be pointed at the final URL seen in the browser, 
> thus:

To confirm: Laurence had advised me of this before I started testing, so 
I was taking care to test URLs of actual pages not redirecting URLs.

> Regarding the promotion of automatic gzip compression of fonts, it could 
> well be a reasonable criticism that our customers may not have control 
> over 'SetOutputFilter' Apache settings (or equivalent).

Indeed.

JH

Received on Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:27:32 UTC