Re: Wrapper not format

Adam Twardoch (List) wrote:

> Following this analogy, .woff, .eot, .otf, .ttf, .ttc, .dfont, FFIL are
> different container formats for sfnt-based digital font files.

Is this helpful, though, to the web font issue, which is that it is 
sometimes important for an agent to know whether a .woff container 
format contains a CFF or TTF font? If everything is a container format, 
how does one make useful distinctions between the container and the 
thing contained?

John Hudson

Received on Thursday, 4 March 2010 03:09:36 UTC