How long has WOFF been around?
Nine months elapsed between the first appearance of WOFF and its publication as a first public Working Draft at W3C in July 2010. Efforts to deploy fonts on the Web are much older, however. Half of the solution, CSS @font-face, has been a standard for a decade, but was hampered by the lack of an interoperable font format. Until 2010, it has been difficult for multiple stakeholders (browser implementers, font designers, foundries, web designers) to reach an agreement, but W3C has been able to bring them to the table. The WebFonts Working Group is now making good progress.
