[MPEG-OTSPEC] Draft AHG report

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:19 PM Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> Hi Vlad. Thanks for the update.
>
> Sorry perhaps I am getting a bit confused about the actual present
> paragraphs in the report document, versa people background explaining /
> claiming the rationale and benefits of said proposed changes in the zoom
> calls (which are mostly absent from the doc). The report itself without the
> zoom context is largely fine as is now.
>
> I think I am generally skeptical of people proposing new features based on
> either of these direction of claims:
>
> - new is better than old/alt executed poorly. Old/alt executed poorly is
> just poor, and no indication of new being better. Size-claims are mostly in
> this category, when you look at how poorly executed the old/alternative is,
> in the comparison.
>

Can you elaborate on "Size-claims are mostly in this category, when you
look at how poorly executed the old/alternative is, in the comparison."?



> - new is magical without any complications from discarding years of
> learned wisdom tuning and fine-tuning old. That would be claims about
> hinting being "just seem to work" ...
>
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