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Auto insertions or anything that does things behind the users' back should go die in a fire.
by TeeMassive 4y ago
Auto insertions or anything that does things behind the users' back should go die in a fire.
- cryptonector 4y agoProblem is that this is totally normal for CJK users, where you really want to type in a syllabic or phonetic or similar system and get drop-down selection menus for Chinese/Kanji characters to replace your writing with. Doing that for emoji is basically the same thing for CJK users. For Latin script users, however, this is very disruptive.
- TeeMassive 4y agoI dabbled in Japanese; you are not comparing the same thing.
- cryptonector 4y agoIt's not that different.
- TeeMassive 4y agoIt is because it is required to produce the wanted characters and is usually implemented by the OS / browser, not at the final application level which interferes with this process.
- cryptonector 4y agoThe UX is still that you get a drop-down picker. What component of the system implements that seems of little importance to users unless that becomes obvious (each app doing it differently, though obviously that happens). I expect that the emoji picker will become part of the OS eventually. Heck, Windows has one that you have to call up explicitly (with <Alt>-.), iOS has an emoji "keyboard" (input mode), etc, so we're headed in that direction.