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Start using WOFF2 in ULS WebFonts
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Supported by little over 50% of modern browsers (current desktop Firefox, Chrome, Opera; and current Chrome for Android, and Opera for Android).

http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10QJ_GABjwzfwUb5DZ3DULdv82k74QdPArkovYJZ-glc/present

While at it let's also make sure all fonts have a WOFF variant if not already (I know most ULS fonts have a .woff already.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff (over 90%) - IE9+, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Android, iOS. Basically all except Opera Mini.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
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Add WOFF2 version of fontsSanthoshmediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelectormaster+73 -7
Customize query in gerrit

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Krinkle created this task.Feb 27 2016, 7:14 PM
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Ricordisamoa subscribed.Feb 28 2016, 8:55 AM
Nikerabbit added a subscriber: santhosh.Feb 28 2016, 1:45 PM
santhosh triaged this task as High priority.Mar 29 2016, 5:30 AM
santhosh moved this task from Backlog to Design research required on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Mar 29 2016, 5:47 AM
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Change 283125 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santhosh):
Add WOFF2 version of fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/283125

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 13 2016, 5:54 AM
santhosh claimed this task.Apr 13 2016, 5:55 AM

I prepared a spreadsheet showing font size reduction with the above patch

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q69n-UYJR6OAJXW56mH5WUqIFHfC-jjWspq9-Z2IwLw/edit#gid=0

santhosh added a project: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 1.Apr 13 2016, 5:55 AM
santhosh moved this task from Backlog to In Review on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 1 board.
Nikerabbit added a comment.Apr 13 2016, 7:33 AM

Percentage comparison of size reductions would be interesting.

Can we drop EOT at this point to reduce repo size? IE9+ supports WOFF as far as I can see: http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/browser-fonts-support-comparison

TTF is also quite soon becoming obsolete.

Nikerabbit added a subtask: T132552: Create visual inspection page for webfonts.Apr 13 2016, 8:32 AM
KartikMistry subscribed.Apr 19 2016, 5:14 AM

TTF/EOT can be dropped, IMHO.

• Arrbee edited projects, added: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint Break; removed: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 1.Apr 19 2016, 5:16 AM
Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to In Review on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint Break board.Apr 20 2016, 5:24 AM
santhosh edited projects, added: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 2; removed: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint Break.May 2 2016, 4:45 AM
santhosh moved this task from Backlog to In Review on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 2 board.May 2 2016, 5:38 AM
gerritbot added a comment.May 11 2016, 5:56 AM

Change 283125 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add WOFF2 version of fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/283125

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-05-17_(1.28.0-wmf.2)).May 11 2016, 6:00 AM
Nikerabbit moved this task from In Review to Done on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 2 board.May 11 2016, 6:40 AM
• Arrbee edited projects, added: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 3; removed: Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 2.May 17 2016, 7:05 AM
• Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to QA on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 3 board.May 17 2016, 7:25 AM
Nikerabbit removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 19 2016, 1:15 PM

Not working on mediawiki.org currently because https://www.mediawiki.org/static/current/extensions/ points to wmf.1 branch. I am trying to figure out why is this and whether we need to change something.

Nikerabbit added a comment.May 20 2016, 6:31 AM

Works now, filed T135806: ULS should support the new static.php which uses file hashes instead of version number for cache handling for the above issue.

Nikerabbit moved this task from QA to Done on the Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 3 board.May 20 2016, 6:31 AM
• Arrbee closed this task as Resolved.May 31 2016, 6:59 AM
Nikerabbit closed subtask T132552: Create visual inspection page for webfonts as Resolved.Aug 18 2016, 12:52 PM
Amire80 moved this task from Design research required to Epics on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Oct 31 2017, 12:43 PM
Aklapper added a project: Epic.Aug 14 2023, 9:05 AM
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