Re: Announcing new font compression project

"Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:25:57 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <CAAWBYDDZ91bm1zoaphM4UkFnvcF=v=LuTjcE27nHmqWE0EgWRw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Tal Leming <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>> Raph, presuming that this new compression method is judged worthwhile --
>>> which seems likely --, how do you see it progressing? Is this something that
>>> you hope to be adopted by W3C as e.g. WOFF 2.0?
>>
>> Yes, that's the goal we're hoping for!
>
> Are you concerned that this will give WOFF, "the interoperable webfont wrapper", interoperability problems?

WOFF is interoperable because all the browsers agreed to implement it.
 Our hope is that this proposal is good enough to get the same
treatment.

~TJ