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?)
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