- From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:32:25 +0100
- To: Mark Tomlin <dygear@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On 5 Aug 2009, at 02:09, Mark Tomlin wrote:
> So to make sure I get this straight, a .webfont file is basically a
> zipped directory containing tff files or some other format font with
> an XML file that tells the 'reader' who the font was made by, who it
> belongs to and what the font is. Information that could also be
> included in the info.xml is then when the bold html tag is applied to
> an element, what part of the file to read.
>
> Helvetica.webfont
> {
> info.xml
> fontdata
> {
> Helvetica.tff
> Helvetica Bold.tff
> Helvetica Italic.tff
> Helvetica Bold-Italic.tff
> }
> }
>
> I do like that this allow for basically anyone who has a text editor
> and zip compression software on their computer to make there own
> ..webfont. But then, I could also be getting this completely wrong.
I hope we won't end up with something like this. First, putting
multiple faces into a single file like this will mean that in many
cases, the client ends up downloading the entire family even if the
page only uses some of the faces. That's a waste of bandwidth and will
slow down page load.
Second, the CSS @font-face construct already provides a mechanism for
loading a collection of faces into a family, so let's not complicate
things by duplicating this at a different level. (Anyhow, it's @font-
FACE, not @font-FAMILY; don't confuse the model.)
JK
Received on Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:33:11 UTC