[Openfontlibrary] Compression Questions

[Dave Crossland]

2008/11/1 Ben Weiner <ben at readingtype.org.uk>:
>
>> 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

The way I see this working ideally is for OFLB to

 (a) save the zip file a user uploads "as is"

 (b) decompress all the contents and make them available individually
and directly (for @font-face)

 (c) when any individual files are added to the typeface, create a new
zip that includes everything

 (d) have the decompression work for any common format

 (e) have the compression happen in a range of formats