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It took me a while to get the joke because I didn't recognize that white ghost on a white background. I take this as another example why these non-ascii urls a

• gruez 7y ago
  Why? if you’re talking about the homograph attack, AFAIK both Firefox and Chrome use whitelisting, which for example prevents you from using the Cyrillic “a” with other Latin letters.
• icebraining 7y ago
  It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
  • rahuldottech 7y ago
    Very much depends on what browser/platform you're on. Many different emoji implementations out there.
    • icebraining 7y ago
      Nope, Twitter replaces the unicode character with an SVG image, so it should show the same for everyone.
      • hippish 7y ago
        Depends on how you're browsing. The legacy fallback does not replace it, eg when you have js disabled
        • dubcanada 7y ago
          None of the emoji implementations use a solid white ghost without something else (border or shadow).
        • kick 7y ago
          I have JS disabled, and just viewed it in both the legacy mobile view and the legacy desktop view. Neither have what was originally described.
  • paulddraper 7y ago
    Fails all contrast measures abysmally: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white And this is despite that fact that the actual "font color" is #14171A with excellent contrast: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%2314171A-on-white https://contrast-ratio.com/#%2314171A-on-white But these bizarre characters don't respond the text color and thus utterly unpredictable in their legibility.
    • icebraining 7y ago
      The use of the color is quite different from a regular character, so measuring by the same yardstick makes no sense. This is a blob of color, not just some thin lines. > these bizarre characters At least on Twitter.com, they're not characters, they're SVG images.
      • paulddraper 7y ago
        PNG, but yes.
        • icebraining 7y ago
          Maybe it differs based on the browser? Shows up as https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f47b.svg https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f47b.svg to me.
          • paulddraper 7y ago
            https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f47b.png https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f47b.png ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    • saghm 7y ago
      > Fails all contrast measures abysmally: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white At first, I was thinking that I could see the difference quite clearly between the two colors and I had no clue what you were talking about. Then I hit the "swap colors" button and happened to notice that there was a bunch of text on the left side that I hadn't even seen...
  • m90 7y ago
    Not everyone has near perfect vision, in which case a better monitor won't fix too much if contrast is bad.
  • tenryuu 7y ago
    "being a better consumer is the answer" no thanks
    • icebraining 7y ago
      Yes, being a good consumer (which is not the same as spending much) is important. Research your stuff before buying.