New Font Streaming Tech: W3C publishes proposal for new Web Fonts Working Group
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Dave Crossland
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Personal opinion only:
Font streaming, font enrichment, font incremental-loading... So many names for the next generation of web font loading technology
Font streaming, font enrichment, font incremental-loading... So many names for the next generation of web font loading technology

I think W3C is now open to "invited experts" joining the new Web Fonts Working Group 

Demo from Google:
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Of course CJK stands to profit the most from this, but with some automation this can be useful for even just very basic latin script websites splitting up the load. Hurray for this being in discussion!
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