Why render emoji as images at all?

jmadler / emoji-picker

Add a slick emoji selector to input fields and textareas on your website.

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Why render emoji as images at all? #18

Closed eremzeit closed 8 years ago

eremzeit commented 8 years ago

Maybe I'm a noob but I don't understand why you chose to render the emojis in the picker via an image rather than rendering as unicode. Browsers support rendering emojis as unicode. Unless you want to force a specific emoji image set (eg. google, twitter, or apple) requiring the user to download a spritesheet seems to me like a waste of bandwidth. Am I misunderstanding something with how emojis work?

gdeglin commented 8 years ago

Many browsers and devices don't support rendering emoji, such as Chrome on Android 4.3 and below, Chrome on OS X 10.9 and below, or Chrome on any version of Windows.

eremzeit commented 8 years ago

Ah, I've been researching more and found this to be correct.

More info: http://blog.getemoji.com/post/57054354336/which-browsers-support-emoji

Thanks!

patrick-mcdougle commented 5 years ago

Rendering them as images might have copyright issues see #123