RE: Including WOFF in ACID3

On Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:41 AM Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> As I recall,  "WOFF will be the required format for compliance, the
> others being optional." was added to the spec when Microsoft was
> playing hardball and refusing to do TTF fonts.
> 
> Now that MSIE *does* TTF, how can we add TTF to the specs alongside
> WOFF?

With my chair of the WebFonts WG hat on - we have all agreed and approved the charter for the WG. By joining the WebFont WG as an Invited Expert, you made a commitment to abide by the W3C Process Document and participation conditions described in the WebFonts WG charter. Any work related to TTF is out of scope for this WG.

> 
> Clever use of TTF, Unicode-Range and transparent GZIP may outperform
> WOFF for very large fonts, so I'd like to see  TTF standardised
> alongside WOFF.

If you have real facts to back up your claims and/or know a way to improve WOFF, please bring them to the attention of the WebFonts WG. 

Regards,
Vladimir

Received on Thursday, 14 October 2010 07:53:55 UTC