Difference between EOT lite und EOT compressed

Question

What’s the difference between EOT lite and EOT compressed?

It says that EOT files have a domain binding built in, but for example I can convert my fonts to EOTs with the FontSquirrel converter where I cannot enter any URL where the files should be bound to.

Would be great if somebody could enlighten me! :)

Stooge

Answer 1

The domain binding isn't necessary and can be dropped. EOT Lite is effectively just a TTF with a different file ending while EOT compressed is just adding MTX compression to the mix. You can actually check that yourself by comparing a FontSquirrel generated TTF and EOT lite against each other in a hex editor. Except for a few additional flags the files are practically identical.

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Geri

So which one is preferable? Sounds like "EOT compressed", right? caniuse doesn't distiguish between both... – Petitioner

I would ask the question differently... what are the use cases for eot light and eot compressed? "Best" is always depending on the situation and doesn't have a general answer. – Rollick