[OpenFontLibrary] WOFF Ultra Condensed

[Peter Baker]

On Thursday, March 29, 2012, wrote:

> **
> >In this proposal, we've tried to strike a balance between complexity
> >and aggressiveness of compression. The biggest gains by far come from
> >better compression of the glyf table (and eliminating the loca table
> >altogether), so basically this proposal squeezes this table to the
> >maximum.
>
> Why is it a good idea to remove the glyph location "loca" table?
>

The thinking is presumably that it's quicker to recreate the (functionality
of the) loca table on the user's end than to transmit it from a web server.

Do all the current rendering engines handle fonts lacking the loca table
reasonably well?

Peter
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