I wonder if doing this in Unicode was a huge mistake.
Reading this article seems to me we are pulling the thread of a sweater, and getting caught in an unsolvable intersection of intersectionalist social issues (pun intended!). FYI I'm not taking sides other than to say we live in an actually diverse world and people have different social mores wether we like them or not, this talk will never end.
Maybe we should just have allowed 'svg' images into text, and you pick whatever you want to send to that person, and they see what you sent and that's that.
Then anyone can do anything, publicly, privately, whatever.
It's already getting hard with Emojis getting into text and passwords, it's making it just ugly.
Everyone could then 'do their own' thing and that's it.
We also could be past the peak of this emoji trend, they are here to stay in some ways, but I don't think the specificity is really that-that important. We just don't use most of these characters very often at all.
Has anyone here integrated emoji web picker in their website/web app? What's the recommended flow.
I see that the library by OneSignal is rated high[1], but it's 2 years since updated; I guess it misses out on few emoji sprites.
Isn't it high time input type=emoji is made a standard or is it a bad idea?
Important to point out that the linked article, in addition to being highly-informative and well-researched is also an exemplary application of type design worthy of emulation.
If you’re running a SAAS business you can admire it; if you publish a blog or editorial site by all means copy it.
I like emoji, and I enjoyed using them for a while. But since it's become politicized by the manufactured outrage industry, I just stick to my old-school 1980's emoticons.
Nobody ever got fake offended by :)
A regression to hieroglyphics, a collation and rendering nightmare, a security morass, AND a volley in the culture wars...
Unicode is the gift that keeps on giving.
The 8-part series this comes from (starting here [1]) was a really good read. Very informative, regardless of one's stance on emoji.
[1] https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/08/emoji-part-1-in-the-be...