One of Google’s core principles is that "fast is better than slow", and the Web Fonts team takes that to heart. We’re always looking for ways to make web fonts load faster, and that’s doubtless a key factor in our rapid user adoption. Today, we are announcing a new way to make web fonts smaller and faster, in collaboration with the Monotype Imaging Fonts.com Web Fonts team. Google Web Fonts now implements Monotype Imaging’s MicroType Express compression format, which yields an approximate 15% savings in file size over using gzip alone. This change will automatically speed up Google Web Fonts for Internet Explorer browsers (version 6 and up). We’re also actively working to offer improved compression with other modern browsers, including Google Chrome.
We’ve kept the interface simple, so designers don’t need to update their integrations in any way — we’ll automatically upgrade the CSS snippet and font files so that site designers and visitors get their fonts faster. We’ve done this for previous speed optimizations as well, such as automatically stripping the hints (metadata used for improving rendering quality on Windows) when serving fonts to Mac, iOS, and Android clients. We expect that most future optimizations will also be automatic and transparent.
Monotype Imaging has agreed to make MicroType Express available to the public at no cost; the license can be found at monotypeimaging.com/aboutus/mtx-license. We believe it’s friendly to both open source and proprietary implementations.
Today, we are also releasing an implementation of MicroType Express compression as part of the Embedded OpenType converter in the open-source sfntly library, adding to the existing WOFF compression. The sfntly library, developed by the Google Internationalization Engineering team, serves as the core conversion engine in Google Web Fonts for subsetting, hint stripping, and related functions of our dynamic serving path. We hope that all web font services, as well as people hosting their own web fonts, will use sfntly to optimize font serving across the web.
We are proud to be working with Monotype Imaging, and we look forward to learning more from designers, users, sites and other partners to advance the state of web fonts together!
Posted by Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web Fonts
The Next Gen of UC - Microsoft Lync - Live Seminar
- Lower operating expenses
- Improve employee productivity
- Increase customer satisfaction
This event is focused on addressing your business challenges and will be interactive. Unified Communications Strategist, Marty Parker, will be our keynote speaker. This will be a great way to get the latest look at Microsoft Lync Server 2010: the next generation of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.Lync Server 2010 offers:
- A single interface uniting voice communications, presence, instant messaging, and audio/video/web conferencing.
- A familiar user experience accessible through MS Office, SharePoint, and Exchange.
- Interoperability with existing systems for smoother deployment and migration.
AGENDA:
December 6th, 2011
10:30am -11:00am - Registration, Coffee
11:00am -11:30am - Keynote – Marty Parker
11:30am -11:45am - Your Business Challenges
11:45am -12:30pm - Demonstrating Solution Applications& ROI Possibilities
12:30pm - 1:00pm - Lunch & Connecting
1:00pm - 1:15pm - Q & A and Wrap Up
1:15pm - 1:30pm - Raffle for gifts
Seating is limited – Reserve your spot today!
- Irvine, CA
- Bellevue, WA
- Santa Clara, CA
We look forward to having you participate in this exciting event!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Marty Parker
Prinicipal UniComm Consulting - UniComm ConsultingMarty is focused on helping enterprises improve their business results through Unified Communications. To achieve this goal, Marty recently co-founded UniComm Consulting, the industry's premier Unified Communications consulting firm.
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VOX is a Microsoft Gold Partner for Unified Comunications. We are focused on helping our clients successfully deploy Lync, Exchange UM, or migrate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007/R2 to Lync and to improve collaboration, speed to market, and customer satisfaction.
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