[Openfontlibrary] Compression Questions

[Ben Weiner]

Hi,

Brendan Ferguson wrote:
>> And looking is all it will do for Zips. No unarchiving... so I can't  
>> for
>> example ask it about each of the files in the archive in a useful way.
>> It's just executing a system command or something in getID3 and then
>> waving the results in the air in an affable but essentially unhelpful
>> way :-)
>>
>>     
> Yes, I see how it works now.
>
> What are useful features that our font project could get on the font  
> files, that it could not get on the same font file in a zip?
>
>   
Reading the contents of the font. OTFs and kin are full of juicy metadata.
> Is there any real reason for there to be a zip? Would it make sense to  
> decompress any compressed file and not store the say zip at all?
>   
Yes. It would. Zip makes a great upload and download arrangement but is 
useless for @font-face hosting which OFLB currently supports (have you 
tried it?)

Cheers,
Ben