This is a DRAFT charter for discussion and has not been approved by the W3C Advisory Committee.
The mission of the Web Fonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity, is to develop specifications that allow the interoperable deployment of downloadable fonts on the Web. Existing specifications (CSS3 Fonts, SVG) explain how to describe and link to fonts, so the main focus will be the standardisation of font formats suited to the task, and a specification defining conformance (for fonts, authoring tools, viewers ...) covering all the technology required for WebFonts.
WOFF 1.0 is at Candidate Recommendation, with full test suite and many implementations. In the past two years there has been substantial uptake of WebFonts on production web pages.
However, for fonts with many glyphs (such as are typically used for Chinese and Japanese, for example), even with the compression provided by WOFF 1.0, download sizes are still large. Recently a modified, two-stage compression scheme was proposed which could offer filesize savings of the order of 40% compared to WOFF 1.0. This proposed charter adds stansdardisation of this new method as a deliverable of the existing WebFonts Working Group.
End date | 31 Mar 2015 |
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Confidentiality | Proceedings are public |
Initial Chairs | Vladimir Levantovsky (Monotype Imaging) |
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 40) |
Chris Lilley |
Usual Meeting Schedule | Teleconferences: Weekly Face-to-face: Twice Annually |
The Fonts WG will develop Recommendation-track specifications as listed under deliverables; track emerging implementations, and maintain communications with the typography, Web design and implementor communities.
Existence of:
The Working group should encourage implementations, and engage in dialogue with implementors, but is not expected to be the sole source of implementations.
Creation of new font formats, and significant, implementation-breaking changes to existing ones, are out of scope.
Creation of new font linking mechanisms is out of scope.
The group may also produce outreach and tutorial material, notes, demos and tools as it deems appropriate.
Note: The group will document significant changes from this initial schedule on the group home page. | |||||
Specification | FPWD | LC | CR | PR | Rec |
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WOFF | July 2010 | Nov 2010 | Aug 2011 | Mar 2011 | May 2011 |
WOFF 2.0 | Oct 2012 | May 2013 | Oct 2013 | Oct 2014 | Feb 2014 |
Furthermore, Web Fonts Working Group expects to follow these W3C Recommendations:
To be successful, the Web Fonts Working Group is expected to have six or more active participants for its duration. Effective participation to Web Fonts Working Group is expected to consume one work day per week for each participant; two days per week for chairs and editors. The Web Fonts Working Group will allocate also the necessary resources for building Test Suites for each specification.
Participants are reminded of the Good Standing requirements of the W3C Process.
This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list public-webfonts-wg@w3.org (archive).
Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the Web Fonts Working Group home page.
As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3), this group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any objections, and move on.
This charter is written in accordance with Section 3.4, Votes of the W3C Process Document and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process Document requires.
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
This charter for the Web Fonts Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
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