How to access WOFF meta-data?

[Jan Odvarko]

Are there any APIs that would allow to access information within a
*.woff file?

In case of pages that download woff fonts, Firebug could show all the
associated meta-data from the file.

Honza

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 May 2010, at 15:14, Jan Odvarko wrote:

> Are there any APIs that would allow to access information within a
> *.woff file?

Not yet. Well, the low-level C code exists to extract the metadata. But there are no APIs within Gecko to expose that in a useful way at present.

>
> In case of pages that download woff fonts, Firebug could show all the
> associated meta-data from the file.

This would be a natural extension of what https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467669 is talking about. There should be a way to determine what fonts are used and get various kinds of information about them; in the case of WOFF fonts, this would include the WOFF metadata.

JK

[Jan Odvarko]

On May 13, 5:04 pm, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 13 May 2010, at 15:14, Jan Odvarko wrote:
>
> > Are there any APIs that would allow to access information within a
> > *.woff file?
>
> Not yet. Well, the low-level C code exists to extract the metadata. But there are no APIs within Gecko to expose that in a useful way at present.
>
>
>
> > In case of pages that download woff fonts, Firebug could show all the
> > associated meta-data from the file.
>

> This would be a natural extension of whathttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467669is talking about. There should be a way to determine what fonts are used and get various kinds of information about them; in the case of WOFF fonts, this would include the WOFF metadata.
>
> JK

I have made a note in that bug. This would be pretty cool feature in
Firebug.

Honza