W3C Advances Web Font Standards

August 19, 2010

Since the advent of the Web, developers have been limited in the fonts they could use for online content. That's now changing thanks to the emerging Web Open File Format (WOFF) standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

WOFF will enable Web developers to use a broad set of fonts that will be supported across all major browsers. The WOFF 1.0 standard has not yet been finalized, but according to the W3C, it is nearing completion.

"The W3C WebFonts Working Group does not expect to make any significant groundbreaking changes to the current WOFF 1.0 spec, but the development and review process will likely result in incremental changes and additional clarification made in the spec to improve its content quality," Vladimir Levantovsky, chairman of the W3C WebFonts Working Group and senior technology strategist at Monotype Imaging, told InternetNews.com.

Levantovsky noted that the development of the WOFF Recommendation follows the process that the W3C set up to ensure high technical quality while allowing time for review.

Moving forward, the W3C will be publishing additional materials and tools to help validate WOFF prior to the complete standard becoming official. ...

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Source: developer.com