FYI: More emoji from Chrome

["Martin J. Dürst"]

Now that it's no longer April 1st (at least not here in Japan), I can 
add a (moderately) serious comment.

On 2014/04/02 01:43, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:01:39AM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
>> More emoji from Chrome:
>>
>> http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html
>>
>> with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y
>
> I do not know… The demos leave me completely unimpressed: emoji — by
> their nature — require higher resolution than text, so an emoji for
> “pie” does not save any place comparing to the word itself.  So the
> impact of this on everyday English-languare communication would not be
> in any way beneficial.

This is somewhat different for Japanese (and languages with similar 
writing systems) because they have higher line height.

Regards,   Martin.