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Panic introduces the world's first emoji domain

49 points by cstuder 15y ago

cstuder 15y ago
Might require OS X Lion and Safari. Corresponding blog post here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
- stephth 15y ago
  works on my iPad and iPhone with iOS 4.
  - X-Istence 15y ago
    iOS has had Emoji support for a while now, I remember my co-worker texting his wife with them.
    - masklinn 15y ago
      > iOS has had Emoji support for a while now Yep, iPhoneOS 2.2 (November 2008). Although it's important to note it uses Softbank emoji.
      - frankus 15y ago
        After an app sets a certain key in NSUserDefaults.
        shinratdr 15y ago
        Not anymore, you can add the keyboard in directly from the OS since iOS 4.
troymc 15y ago
It shows up as http://xn--ls8h.la/ http://xn--ls8h.la/ in Chrome.
- yread 15y ago
  Opera displays an empty rectangle and when I click the link it doesn't allow me to go there saying it might an "attempt to trick you into visiting a website which you might mistake for a site you trust."
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  For really good reasons, too. I'm fairly sure that this is done for anti-phishing reasons.
- tesseract 15y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
akavi 15y ago
Can somebody post a screenshot for those of still in the emoji-less stone age?
- alanfalcon 15y ago
  From my iPhone 4: http://i.imgur.com/owBxH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/owBxH.jpg
  - tomkinstinch 15y ago
    What version of iOS are you running? I'm on 4.0.1, and all I see is "http://xn--ls8h.la/ http://xn--ls8h.la/
    - alanfalcon 15y ago
      4.3.3
    - uberalex 15y ago
      You need to enable emoji. There are several free App store apps that will do it. One is Emoji Free! By Awesomest Inc.
      - naz 15y ago
        You don't need an app. Just go to Settings > General > International > Keyboards and add the Emjoi keyboard.
      - tomkinstinch 15y ago
        That's the thing. I have emoji characters enabled, and can type and see them in text messages. It's odd I can't see them in Safari. Could it have something to do with my phone being jailbroken?
- thought_alarm 15y ago
  Here's how it looks from Hacker News: http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6783/emoji.png http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6783/emoji.png
commanda 15y ago
This is similar to a URL shortener my friends and I wrote a few years ago: http://get.emo.gd/ http://get.emo.gd/. Emoji TLDs are even better.
genieyclo 15y ago
No emoji here apparently (ubuntu 10.04), just a rotating rectangle. Is there an emoji ttf font pack anywhere someone can link to? edit: emoji is not unicode standard and has no linux support apparently. oh well.
- lachenmayer 15y ago
  The article speaks of an "officially accepted Unicode 6.0 Emoji / ISO 10646 standard", but of course a standard has nothing to do with whether it is Linux supported!
- fungi 15y ago
  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6628661 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6628661 Haven't got it working in firefox yet, but can see in Character Selector.
- thristian 15y ago
  The latest versions of Unicode have an official encoding for emoji, and (after having installed a suitable font) the resulting page renders just fine in Firefox Aurora on Ubuntu 11.04. It doesn't render in the URL bar, of course, but that's Firefox's IDN whitelist at work.
  - Tobu 15y ago
    A suitable font is Symbola: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ The Apple Emoji font uses a non-standard extension (png images in an 'sbix' table), so it can't be used outside of Lion / iOS at the moment.
- deleted 15y ago
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- mjg59 15y ago
  It's completely supported by Linux, but you need appropriate font coverage.
ChrisArchitect 15y ago
wow, thanks for the screenshots.. I didn't expect that pic. Expected a japanese character or something. Wow. We don't need that.
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kijeda 15y ago
The fact that this works reflects that fact Safari hasn't implemented the IDN standard fully, and neither has the .LA domain registry. Section 4.2.2 of RFC 5891 forbids the Emoji codepoints from being encoded in a valid IDN string.
- Dylan16807 15y ago
  Technically yes but if I'm reading it right that's only because in an outdated chart they hadn't been assigned yet. Unless there's a pattern of disallowing symbols but I'd have to question the motivation behind that. Edit: Nevermind, the rules used to create the chart are designed to disallow symbols. It gives an explanation of the rule but not the reason it was set. These rules identify characters commonly used in mnemonics and often informally described as "language characters". In general, only code points assigned to this category are suitable for use in IDN.
huhtenberg 15y ago
Poopla indeed - http://i53.tinypic.com/jac6jn.png http://i53.tinypic.com/jac6jn.png (FF6 on XP)
genrand 15y ago
why?
- trebor 15y ago
  Why indeed. It's just a publicity stunt, of course.
graham_holborn 15y ago
Their have been lots of emoji and other special char domains used already. you just haven't stumbled upon them yet.
bugmenot 15y ago
£.com is another similar domain
mortenjorck 15y ago
😄 👍 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
- robgough 15y ago
  🍆 made me laugh, can't think why...
kaiwen1 15y ago
Is this there any utility to this at all?
seriocomic 15y ago
From the source HTML: " "
ootachi 15y ago
Doesn't work in Firefox. Note to web developers: CSS animations are supported now in Firefox; please use the -moz prefix as well as -webkit.

49 points by cstuder 15y ago

Might require OS X Lion and Safari. Corresponding blog post here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...

stephth 15y ago
works on my iPad and iPhone with iOS 4.
- X-Istence 15y ago
  iOS has had Emoji support for a while now, I remember my co-worker texting his wife with them.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    > iOS has had Emoji support for a while now Yep, iPhoneOS 2.2 (November 2008). Although it's important to note it uses Softbank emoji.
    - frankus 15y ago
      After an app sets a certain key in NSUserDefaults.
      - shinratdr 15y ago
        Not anymore, you can add the keyboard in directly from the OS since iOS 4.

troymc 15y ago

It shows up as http://xn--ls8h.la/ http://xn--ls8h.la/ in Chrome.

yread 15y ago
Opera displays an empty rectangle and when I click the link it doesn't allow me to go there saying it might an "attempt to trick you into visiting a website which you might mistake for a site you trust."
drivebyacct2 15y ago
For really good reasons, too. I'm fairly sure that this is done for anti-phishing reasons.
tesseract 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

akavi 15y ago

Can somebody post a screenshot for those of still in the emoji-less stone age?

alanfalcon 15y ago
From my iPhone 4: http://i.imgur.com/owBxH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/owBxH.jpg
- tomkinstinch 15y ago
  What version of iOS are you running? I'm on 4.0.1, and all I see is "http://xn--ls8h.la/ http://xn--ls8h.la/
  - alanfalcon 15y ago
    4.3.3
  - uberalex 15y ago
    You need to enable emoji. There are several free App store apps that will do it. One is Emoji Free! By Awesomest Inc.
    - naz 15y ago
      You don't need an app. Just go to Settings > General > International > Keyboards and add the Emjoi keyboard.
    - tomkinstinch 15y ago
      That's the thing. I have emoji characters enabled, and can type and see them in text messages. It's odd I can't see them in Safari. Could it have something to do with my phone being jailbroken?
thought_alarm 15y ago
Here's how it looks from Hacker News: http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6783/emoji.png http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6783/emoji.png

commanda 15y ago

This is similar to a URL shortener my friends and I wrote a few years ago: http://get.emo.gd/ http://get.emo.gd/. Emoji TLDs are even better.

genieyclo 15y ago

No emoji here apparently (ubuntu 10.04), just a rotating rectangle. Is there an emoji ttf font pack anywhere someone can link to? edit: emoji is not unicode standard and has no linux support apparently. oh well.

lachenmayer 15y ago
The article speaks of an "officially accepted Unicode 6.0 Emoji / ISO 10646 standard", but of course a standard has nothing to do with whether it is Linux supported!
fungi 15y ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6628661 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6628661 Haven't got it working in firefox yet, but can see in Character Selector.
thristian 15y ago
The latest versions of Unicode have an official encoding for emoji, and (after having installed a suitable font) the resulting page renders just fine in Firefox Aurora on Ubuntu 11.04. It doesn't render in the URL bar, of course, but that's Firefox's IDN whitelist at work.
- Tobu 15y ago
  A suitable font is Symbola: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ The Apple Emoji font uses a non-standard extension (png images in an 'sbix' table), so it can't be used outside of Lion / iOS at the moment.
deleted 15y ago
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mjg59 15y ago
It's completely supported by Linux, but you need appropriate font coverage.

ChrisArchitect 15y ago

wow, thanks for the screenshots.. I didn't expect that pic. Expected a japanese character or something. Wow. We don't need that.

deleted 15y ago

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kijeda 15y ago

The fact that this works reflects that fact Safari hasn't implemented the IDN standard fully, and neither has the .LA domain registry. Section 4.2.2 of RFC 5891 forbids the Emoji codepoints from being encoded in a valid IDN string.

Dylan16807 15y ago
Technically yes but if I'm reading it right that's only because in an outdated chart they hadn't been assigned yet. Unless there's a pattern of disallowing symbols but I'd have to question the motivation behind that. Edit: Nevermind, the rules used to create the chart are designed to disallow symbols. It gives an explanation of the rule but not the reason it was set. These rules identify characters commonly used in mnemonics and often informally described as "language characters". In general, only code points assigned to this category are suitable for use in IDN.

huhtenberg 15y ago

Poopla indeed - http://i53.tinypic.com/jac6jn.png http://i53.tinypic.com/jac6jn.png (FF6 on XP)

genrand 15y ago

why?

trebor 15y ago
Why indeed. It's just a publicity stunt, of course.

graham_holborn 15y ago

Their have been lots of emoji and other special char domains used already. you just haven't stumbled upon them yet.

bugmenot 15y ago

£.com is another similar domain

mortenjorck 15y ago

😄 👍 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

robgough 15y ago
🍆 made me laugh, can't think why...

kaiwen1 15y ago

Is this there any utility to this at all?

seriocomic 15y ago

From the source HTML: " "

ootachi 15y ago

Doesn't work in Firefox. Note to web developers: CSS animations are supported now in Firefox; please use the -moz prefix as well as -webkit.