Re: Announcing new font compression project

Raph Levien <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:02:36 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <CAFQ67bPW=c0m9D_r5cpoGsEJE7mqyPsdvFy6k6rMzDiQ3aSmRQ@mail.gmail.com>
--20cf3074afc44c5f6204bc7f83e1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

What Liam said (especially about it being an exciting proposal :)

More seriously, yes, I did not mean to imply that it's a done deal. I meant
the hypothetical projection assuming the new proposal is implemented and
adopted. Liam's wording would have been, in fact, better.

Also, I just ran a rough estimate, and something in the ballpark 75% of the
installed base is now WOFF capable. That's up from an estimated 57.11%
(desktop) as of July 20, 2011 (
http://www.kombinat-typefounders.com/store/catalog/article/woff_support/),
so  support is increasing fast.

Raph

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:06 -0700, Raph Levien wrote:
> > [...]
>
> > I suspect
> > that the time gap between, say, 95% of the installed base of browsers
> being
> > able to support WOFF and 95% of the installed base being able to support
> > WOFF 2 is, in fact, going to be pretty slim.
>
> s/is, in fact/would be, in fact/ -- let's not imply "Woff 2" is a done
> deal just yet... although yes, the proposal is exciting!
>
> Liam
>
> --
> Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
>
>

--20cf3074afc44c5f6204bc7f83e1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

What Liam said (especially about it being an exciting proposal :)<div><br><=
/div><div>More seriously, yes, I did not mean to imply that it&#39;s a done=
 deal. I meant the hypothetical projection assuming the new proposal is imp=
lemented and adopted. Liam&#39;s wording would have been, in fact, better.<=
/div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, I just ran a rough estimate, and something in the=
 ballpark 75% of the installed base is now WOFF capable. That&#39;s up from=
 an estimated 57.11% (desktop) as of July 20, 2011 (<a href=3D"http://www.k=
ombinat-typefounders.com/store/catalog/article/woff_support/">http://www.ko=
mbinat-typefounders.com/store/catalog/article/woff_support/</a>), so =A0sup=
port is increasing fast.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Raph<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 30, =
2012 at 5:24 PM, Liam R E Quin <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:liam=
@w3.org">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex=
">
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:06 -0700, Raph Levien wrote:<br>
&gt; [...]<br>
<div class=3D"im"><br>
&gt; I suspect<br>
&gt; that the time gap between, say, 95% of the installed base of browsers =
being<br>
&gt; able to support WOFF and 95% of the installed base being able to suppo=
rt<br>
&gt; WOFF 2 is, in fact, going to be pretty slim.<br>
<br>
</div>s/is, in fact/would be, in fact/ -- let&#39;s not imply &quot;Woff 2&=
quot; is a done<br>
deal just yet... although yes, the proposal is exciting!<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
Liam<br>
<br>
--<br>
Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, <a href=3D"http://www.w3.org/People/Qui=
n/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/</a><br>
Pictures from old books: <a href=3D"http://fromoldbooks.org/" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://fromoldbooks.org/</a><br>
<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>

--20cf3074afc44c5f6204bc7f83e1--