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The emoji is consistent across their system. That’s the consistency that matters to most users.

by dagmx 3y ago

lapcat 3y ago
Incorrect, because emoji are being used to communicate with other people on different systems. That's their primary purpose, not to write to yourself.
- dagmx 3y ago
  I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept. It is consistent for the user on whatever system they are on. If they switch between apps, they see the same emoji that they’re familiar with. The web developer doesn’t have to care what the icon looks like. They just say: use this emoji that semantically means “flower”. They know it may look different to other users but it will look like what that individual user is familiar with.
  - lapcat 3y ago
    > I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept. I'm not struggling with any concept. It's a simple fact that as emojis continually get added to Unicode, not all browsers and operating systems support all emoji, and so one person sees a broken black box where another person sees the emoji. That's gross inconsistency.
    - dagmx 3y ago
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      - lapcat 3y ago
        > So let’s not use html either because someone can clutch pearls all day that some ancient browser on some EOL system might not support a specific new html tag. Ancient? The submitted article is "New emojis in 2023-2024" about "the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September". Thus, no software even supports the new emoji yet, and ironically they have to use png images to show what the emoji will look like. I'm done talking with you. This is getting too ridiculous. Moreover, your "pearl clutching" remarks are stepping over the line and violating the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - johnofthesea 3y ago
      > so one person sees a broken black box where another person sees the emoji Yeah in general but in this case it is probably just me and few friends who use that site.

The emoji is consistent across their system. That’s the consistency that matters to most users.

by dagmx 3y ago

The emoji is consistent across their system. That’s the consistency that matters to most users.

Incorrect, because emoji are being used to communicate with other people on different systems. That's their primary purpose, not to write to yourself.

dagmx 3y ago
I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept. It is consistent for the user on whatever system they are on. If they switch between apps, they see the same emoji that they’re familiar with. The web developer doesn’t have to care what the icon looks like. They just say: use this emoji that semantically means “flower”. They know it may look different to other users but it will look like what that individual user is familiar with.
- lapcat 3y ago
  > I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept. I'm not struggling with any concept. It's a simple fact that as emojis continually get added to Unicode, not all browsers and operating systems support all emoji, and so one person sees a broken black box where another person sees the emoji. That's gross inconsistency.
  - dagmx 3y ago
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    - lapcat 3y ago
      > So let’s not use html either because someone can clutch pearls all day that some ancient browser on some EOL system might not support a specific new html tag. Ancient? The submitted article is "New emojis in 2023-2024" about "the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September". Thus, no software even supports the new emoji yet, and ironically they have to use png images to show what the emoji will look like. I'm done talking with you. This is getting too ridiculous. Moreover, your "pearl clutching" remarks are stepping over the line and violating the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - johnofthesea 3y ago
    > so one person sees a broken black box where another person sees the emoji Yeah in general but in this case it is probably just me and few friends who use that site.