Open Source Emoji for the Web

Mark Davis ☕️ mark at macchiato.com
Fri Nov 7 10:55:16 CST 2014


One can definitely script it; if you hadn't had compat issues it would be
convenient to have the same convention.

On Thu Nov 06 2014 at 11:30:09 PM Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mark,
>   I will consider this change with CDN chaps too since that would
> invalidate already a lot of cached content at the time it'll ship :-/
>
> We should have paid more attention, on the other side if you need assets
> locally instead of via CDN a script capable of renaming assets from current
> form to your suggested one seems straight forward to me.
>
> Would that (sort of) work?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
>
>> Very nice.
>>
>> I'd have one suggestion. People appear to be converging on similar file
>> names for the emoji.
>>
>>    - Lowercase hex numbers,
>>    - at least 4 digits,
>>    - otherwise no leading zeros,
>>    - multiple code points separated by _,
>>    - with optional prefix/suffix.
>>
>> Like "dcm_0030_20e3.png". I'd suggest using that convention.
>>
>> Not a big thing, but makes it more consistent in tooling.
>>
>>
>> Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
>>
>> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to thank those that helped me a while ago figuring out variants
>>> and emoji behavior.
>>>
>>> Today we are open sourcing a relatively small JS library and 800+ CDN
>>> based assets able to bring unified emoji in every WebView capable device
>>> and browser.
>>>
>>> We are also planning to implement the recently introduced "diversity"
>>> for the Unicode 8 draft as soon as we'll figure out a good approach for it
>>> ( and btw, the default fallback is great! )
>>>
>>> This effort and collaboration is between Twitter [1], MaxCDN [2], and
>>> Wordpress [3].
>>>
>>> Any comment or suggestion will be more than welcome and appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks again and Best Regards
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://blog.twitter.com/2014/open-sourcing-twitter-emoji-for-everyone
>>> [2] https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/emojis-ftw/
>>> [3] http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/emoji-everywhere/
>>>
>>>
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>>
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