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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

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? [1]:https://github.com/OneSignal/emoji-picker https://github.com/OneSignal/emoji-picker

reaperducer 8y ago
Wrike has an emoji picker, but we don't use it much in our group because it's so small that it's hard to make out what the characters are supposed to be.
deathanatos 8y ago
I feel like emoji input is better handled by the user's OS, so that each website out there doesn't need to reinvent the wheel and keep it up to date. But, that said, I'm not sure what support is like for such things. About the best I've seen is OS X's character input. (The dialog that appears on Command+Control+Space.) Linux has IBus, but it could be better. I've no idea if Windows ever grew anything. (I haven't used it since about Vista.)
- uryga 8y ago
  Windows 10 got an emoji picker some time ago, opened by `Win+period` or `Win+semicolon`. it's okay, except that the emoji search seems to use the current keyboard language and not the system language, which is kind of annoying. I don't want to have to remember which language my keyboard is set to to search for a plane emoji!
frutiger 8y ago
Shouldn’t the OS allow emoji (or arbitrary unicode) input? macOS & iOS do, and probably many others.
kccqzy 8y ago
Emojis are what normal people consider "characters," not entire fields unto themselves. Would input=emoji accept pure emoji without text? What if people want to mix emojis and normal text?
- thaumasiotes 8y ago
  > Emojis are what normal people consider "characters" I'm pretty sure emoji are what normal people consider images. Their implementation as characters is a mistake, and the source of several problems that normal people have with them. (Most notably, imagining that the person you're talking to sees the same thing you sent.)
  - pitaj 8y ago
    If emoji are images, then Chinese characters are images. Each emoji has a meaning on its own, and can have different meanings in context. There are combinations of emojis (emoji "sentences" if you will) representing complex concepts.

reaperducer 8y ago

Wrike has an emoji picker, but we don't use it much in our group because it's so small that it's hard to make out what the characters are supposed to be.

deathanatos 8y ago

I feel like emoji input is better handled by the user's OS, so that each website out there doesn't need to reinvent the wheel and keep it up to date. But, that said, I'm not sure what support is like for such things. About the best I've seen is OS X's character input. (The dialog that appears on Command+Control+Space.) Linux has IBus, but it could be better. I've no idea if Windows ever grew anything. (I haven't used it since about Vista.)

uryga 8y ago
Windows 10 got an emoji picker some time ago, opened by `Win+period` or `Win+semicolon`. it's okay, except that the emoji search seems to use the current keyboard language and not the system language, which is kind of annoying. I don't want to have to remember which language my keyboard is set to to search for a plane emoji!

frutiger 8y ago

Shouldn’t the OS allow emoji (or arbitrary unicode) input? macOS & iOS do, and probably many others.

kccqzy 8y ago

Emojis are what normal people consider "characters," not entire fields unto themselves. Would input=emoji accept pure emoji without text? What if people want to mix emojis and normal text?

thaumasiotes 8y ago
> Emojis are what normal people consider "characters" I'm pretty sure emoji are what normal people consider images. Their implementation as characters is a mistake, and the source of several problems that normal people have with them. (Most notably, imagining that the person you're talking to sees the same thing you sent.)
- pitaj 8y ago
  If emoji are images, then Chinese characters are images. Each emoji has a meaning on its own, and can have different meanings in context. There are combinations of emojis (emoji "sentences" if you will) representing complex concepts.