Bug 152427 - Support WOFF2
Summary: Support WOFF2
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150830
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: All All
: P2 Enhancement
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Reported: 2015-12-18 07:49 PST by Bram Stein
Modified: 2015-12-18 12:22 PST (History)
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Description Bram Stein 2015-12-18 07:49:20 PST
At Adobe Typekit we've seen a significant compression increase by serving web fonts in the WOFF2 format instead of the WOFF format. The increase is on average 28%. This allows us to deliver web fonts faster and reduce network traffic at the same time. It would be great if WebKit could implement support for WOFF2 as well. Chrome, Firefox, and Opera already support WOFF2.

WOFF2 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/
Reference implementation: https://github.com/google/woff2

Implementing WOFF2 also opens up the door to using Brotli as a standalone general purpose compression algorithm.
Comment 1 Jason Pamental 2015-12-18 08:03:08 PST
WOFF2 is supported by a number of other browsers; it would be a huge performance benefit (and a big step in supporting better web typography) to have this implemented.
Comment 2 Myles C. Maxfield 2015-12-18 09:43:31 PST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 150830 ***