IRC log of webfonts on 2012-05-30

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Zakim, this will be 3668
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ok, trackbot; I see IA_Fonts()10:00AM scheduled to start now
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Meeting: WebFonts Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 30 May 2012
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Chair: Vlad
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Scribe: ChrisL2
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IA_Fonts()10:00AM has now started
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+ChrisL
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zakim, aaaa is tal
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zakim, aabb is jfkthame
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+tal; got it
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+jfkthame; got it
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zakim, aacc is Christopher
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+Christopher; got it
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zakim, aadd is Vlad
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+Vlad; got it
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zakim, aadd is me
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sorry, Vlad, I do not recognize a party named 'aadd'
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zakim, 781.970.aadd is vlad
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sorry, Vlad, I do not recognize a party named '781.970.aadd'
14:04:24 [ChrisL2]
zakim, who is here?
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On the phone I see ChrisL, tal, jfkthame, Christopher, Vlad
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On IRC I see cslye, jfkthame, Zakim, RRSAgent, tal, Vlad, ChrisL2, trackbot
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Vlad: Chris sent email to a draft charter today
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ChrisL2: lets do that after the woff 1.0 item
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Vlad: Sylvain says IE10 builds should pass all the test cases
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Vlad: if that is the case then we have two implementations, validator is the second one
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Vlad: found a minor inconsistency. Section 5 padding requirement says tables must begin on 4 byte boundaries and be zero padded.
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... however metadata section says that, as its optional, must follow immediately the last font table which is expected to be zero padded. if its the last block there should be no additional padding
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... private data says it must be last, begin on 4 byte boundary, (so expressed as a tool requirement) and no requirement on padding at the end
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Vlad: so for any block, if its the last one, no need to pad. To be consistent
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... and test case becomes invalid
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tal: changing that will break the implementations that are passing
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ChrisL2: OT spec end padding is optional
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Vlad: OT says padding is 'strongly recommended' not a must
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tal: found the bug in fonttools. long discussion with Just van Rossum. Spec is very vasgue and contradictory
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tal: would need to look through emails from 5 years ago to check
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Vlad: (quotes from spec) "highly recommended"
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tal: is it worth breaking the passing implementations by changing this
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tal: so making padding on last table optional if there is no meta and no private
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http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/tests/UserAgent/Tests/xhtml1/testcaseindex.xht#directory-4-byte-002
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http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/spec/#conform-tablesize-longword
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tal: changes in the authoring and validator tests as well
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ChrisL2: opera, webkit and firefox all fail this while IE10 might pass it (and the validator does so)
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tal: odd to change the spec because one font is badly made
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jfkthame: have the OT sanitiser folks said thwey would refuse a patch that fixes it for woff and does not change anything for OT?
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(we don't know)
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tal: don't mind changing it but we discussed a long time ago
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jfkthame: spec as originally drafted only required padding if there was something following
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... then we changed it in the font tables so padding always happens
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... discrepancies in behaviour either way
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cslye: why did we write that tools needed padding at the end table?
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tal: found that bug in fonttools
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... due to differing interpretations of OT spec
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jfkthame: it came from the definition of a well formed sfnt that was round trippable
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ChrisL2: yes that is right
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tal: and we were trying to make it good data coming in
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jfkthame; and that is what other tools seem to be converging on
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(we really need some representation from Microsoft to comment authoritatively on IE10)
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jfkthame: would be happy to write the patch for OTS but it might not be accepted upstream
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jfkthame: could do it as a firefox patch but prefer to see it adopted upstream
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tal: is there any indication to OTS where the font came from?
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jfkthame: yes
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(commercial break - a word from our sponsors)
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(we fail to contact Sylvain)
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Vlad: consistency of implementation is the most important thing
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ChrisL2; we can't make a decision withouthard data o what IE10 does
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(decision deferred to next week)
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(discussion on who the OTS maintainers are)
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jfkthame: adam langley, but half a dozen other folks also involved
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topic: new proposed charter
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2012May/0002.html
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http://www.w3.org/2012/05/WebFonts/draft-charter.html
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ChrisL2: there is a risk of old vs new implementations
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Vlad: mainly heard positive opinions, mainly because of asian font size. Android also interested, for mobile
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... bandwidth on mobile still expensive
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jfkthame: draft says it adds new method
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... should the deliverable be to "do" it or to "evaluate it, and do it if it evaluates well"
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... how does it compare to optimising structure and then applying woff 1.0?
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Vlad: optimisation also gets rid of data that can be reconstructed. so woff does not have the reconstruction phase
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... loca, bounding box data can be reconstructed on the fly
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tal: better to break the proposal into two parts, optmisation and compression
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... and measure where the benefits come from
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Vlad; google did that and presented their findings, repository of code and sample fonts , fine grained report on where the benefits come from
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... optimisations give 15-30%, lzma givea an additional 30% over gzip
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... depends on what can be optimised, unhinted vs hinted, size of original font etc
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... data from Google is from around a thousand Google webfonts
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ChrisL2: suggestion to evaluate and then maybe do it. is a good one
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(general agreement)
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(adjourned)
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zakim, list participants
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As of this point the attendees have been ChrisL, +1.410.370.aaaa, +44.845.397.aabb, +1.510.816.aacc, +1.781.970.aadd, tal, jfkthame, Christopher, Vlad
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rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/05/30-webfonts-minutes.html ChrisL2
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-Christopher
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-ChrisL
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-tal
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-Vlad
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-jfkthame
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IA_Fonts()10:00AM has ended
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Attendees were ChrisL, +1.410.370.aaaa, +44.845.397.aabb, +1.510.816.aacc, +1.781.970.aadd, tal, jfkthame, Christopher, Vlad
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