[mpeg-OTspec] RE: font media types [1 Attachment] -- WOFF?

[David Singer]

On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:44 , Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I brought Bob's question to the attention of the WebFonts WG, and the result of the discussion that followed is summarized below:
> 
> WebFonts WG realizes that there are many devices with different capabilities. The media type "application/font-woff" was registered specifically for use with WOFF resources - according to the WOFF spec, the primary purpose of the WOFF as a resource type is to be used for Web documents where fonts are linked by means of CSS @font-face rule. Since CSS has its own mechanism to signal format hints, they believe that no additional optional parameters are needed for 'font-woff', even though the WG acknowledged the fact that other applications may benefit from having different media types and, possibly, additional optional parameters defined for fonts.
> 
> Thank you,
> Vladimir
> 

Then, if I understand it right, the WOFF format will have one MIME type that doesn't indicate the sub-type of outlines enclosed.  I would have thought that MPEG should match.  If either or both need more specificity, perhaps an optional MIME parameter?

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Hallissy [mailto:bobh528 at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:02 PM
>> To: Levantovsky, Vladimir
>> Cc: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com; lemon at adobe.com; chris at w3.org;
>> tabatkins at google.com; karsten.luecke at kltf.de; singer at apple.com
>> Subject: Re: [mpeg-OTspec] RE: font media types [1 Attachment] -- WOFF?
>> 
>> On 2011-04-07  at 14:36  Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
>>> WOFF format already has 'application/font-woff' defined as the MIME
>>> type for it.
>> 
>> Apologies in advance for my ignorance about mime types.
>> 
>> So does "application/font-woff" have any mechanism to specify whether
>> the woff package includes TTF or CFF outlines, or OT tables, etc?  If
>> woff doesn't need that, are we sure "application/font-off" needs it? Or
>> if OFF needs it, shouldn't WOFF need it? (and shouldn't we be taking
>> the
>> same approach?)
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.