The @w3c #WebFonts #WorkingGroup got a #TechEmmy Award @TheEmmys! Congrats to chairs Vladimir Levantovsky and Garret Rieger + all the group's participants, and especially our own @svgeesus who has been a key driving force of this work since its inception 👏👏👏
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This award recognizes the work done for: "Standardization of Font Technology for Custom Downloadable Fonts and Typography for Web and TV Devices": theemmys.tv/tech-73rd-award-…
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Font support and development continues as more work is needed to make Web fonts attractive for all world languages - the #WebFonts Working Group has recently asked for input for the Incremental #Font Transfer (IFT) specs:
W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social) @w3cdevs
25 Jan 2022
Incremental #Font Transfer (IFT) via #HTTP range requests allows to load only the portions of a font necessary to display a page, and augment them as needed - w3.org/TR/RangeRequest/ #timetogiveinput

Jan 27, 2022 · 1:22 PM UTC

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Read @svgeesus' reflections on the work done by the #WebFonts #WorkingGroup over the past 25 years: mobile.twitter.com/svgeesus/…
Chris Lilley @svgeesus@mastodon.social @svgeesus
26 Jan 2022
Having been involved in: @font-face, CSS Fonts 3,4,5 WOFF, WOFF2 and now IFT - all technologies that have taken WebFonts from 0% a decade ago to 80% of websites today - thrilled that MPEG and @w3c WebFonts Working Group have together been awarded a Technical Emmy for this work!
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