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How do you propose they get transmitted? In-band in the middle of text (good luck reading that with an unsupported editor), or through servers, necessitating NA

by Timon3 3y ago

How do you propose they get transmitted? In-band in the middle of text (good luck reading that with an unsupported editor), or through servers, necessitating NAT and all that good fun? Since the images can be arbitrary you also open yourself up to bugs in the parser. All around a much, much worse idea compared to text emojis.

perryizgr8 3y ago
> good luck reading that with an unsupported editor You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. And supposedly it is quite hard. OTOH displaying jpegs is a solved problem.
- Timon3 3y ago
  > You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. Let's give this a try. This is roughly what a sentence with an emoji looks like in an unsupported editor: hello [] world (with [] being the well-known "placeholder" square). Now let's try the same with an emoji, I went with 16x16 to make this kind of bearable, but realistically you'd want at least 64x64: hello data:image/jpeg;base64,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 world Now, which one is more readable?

by Timon3 3y ago

perryizgr8 3y ago

> good luck reading that with an unsupported editor You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. And supposedly it is quite hard. OTOH displaying jpegs is a solved problem.

Timon3 3y ago
> You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. Let's give this a try. This is roughly what a sentence with an emoji looks like in an unsupported editor: hello [] world (with [] being the well-known "placeholder" square). Now let's try the same with an emoji, I went with 16x16 to make this kind of bearable, but realistically you'd want at least 64x64: hello data:image/jpeg;base64,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 world Now, which one is more readable?