On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Possible in theory, I guess; unlikely in practice. The compression > algorithm used in WOFF2 is extremely asymmetrical, offering fast decoding > but at the cost of slow encoding. The intent is that a large library like > Google Fonts can pre-compress their fonts offline, and then benefit from > serving smaller files; it's not expected to be suitable for on-the-fly > compression. > accelerators like cloudflare and mod_pagespeed/mod_proxy exist to do this kind of general thing as reverse proxies for specific origins.. they can cache the transcoding locally. Obviously that's a lot harder for forward proxies to do. Reverse proxies are often the termination of https:// as well - so this transformation remains relevant in the https world we want. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
