It's great to see traction on the Android-specific bits. This issue is also on the radar of the desktop team, which has seen similar inflation in size. There's some spitballing around downloadable components (i.e. install-on-first-use) as an approach, and it'd likely be something Android would want as well.
On 30 March 2015 at 12:10, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > 8 MB for Fonts >> > > Bug 1063868. > > >> 3.7 MB for Dev Tools >> > > We've excluded some of these; there's some stuff tracked under Bug > *1044079* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044079>. > > >> 3.1 MB for Shumway >> > > Last we checked (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044079#c3) > Shumway isn't shipped in release. > > >> I am curious why the Chiras SIL fonts are so large. Five times 1.7 MB >> each. Why are these so large? A comparable serif font like Georgia is about >> 400 KB for each different style. >> > > That is a Good Question. > > I think the answer is: each of these fonts has 4,661 glyphs. Helvetica has > 1,389. Each file is a full variant. > > IMO we could throw typography to the wind and discard the bold variants, > assuming we have a font renderer that can increase weights dynamically. > We're currently spending 3.4MB just to make *foobar* look good. > > I also don't know why these are separate files, rather than a combined > TTF. Presumably each variant isn't hand-bolded or hand-italicized for all > 4,000 glyphs, so there must be dead weight there. > > >> Maybe the last two should be downloadable components? Is that possible on >> Android? >> > > See the blocked parts of Bug 619521. Another team is working on > downloadable fonts. > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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