<br><br>On Thursday, March 29, 2012, wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u> <div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"> <div>>In this proposal, we've tried to strike a balance between complexity<br>>and aggressiveness of compression. The biggest gains by far come from<br>>better compression of the glyf table (and eliminating the loca table<br>>altogether), so basically this proposal squeezes this table to the<br>>maximum.</div> <div> </div> <div>Why is it a good idea to remove the glyph location "loca" table?</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<span></span></div> <div><br></div><div>Do all the current rendering engines handle fonts lacking the loca table reasonably well?</div><div><br></div><div>Peter </div>