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According to http://ark42.com/unicode/emoji... it has steam on Android 4.4's font and the free font some Linux systems might tend to use by default. It also happens to have a face and eyes on Twitter and iOS/OS X. On Windows 7+ and Android 4.1-4.3 there is neither steam nor a face though.

Are my emoji your emoji? - http://ark42.com/unicode/emoji...
A handy tool that compares many popular emoji fonts from various systems.

Like bugs in features that people actually want to use - http://ark42.com/chrome/

So I generated this B&W example of what this issue does to the fonts, when you take into account RGB sub-pixels: http://ark42.com/win8.1/192dpi...
It's really quite terrible.

Well you can always turn on the option to show your same desktop wallpaper behind the start screen. Might help some. I for one LOVE the fact that I don't have to manually delete all the crap extra icons programs install on the start menu like I used to on Win 7 and below. I can just leave all the garbage in the down-arrow screen and type-to-search the few things I want, and pin just those to the main screen. Once you remove all the junk on the start screen that came there by default, you can easily get a screen that doesn't even need to scroll sideways and fit all the commonly used icons there, neatly organized.

There does not appear to be any filtering at all, at least not at 200% where it can just double up the pixels with ease. It might filter at 125% or 150%, I don't know. Here is a screenshot where I put arrows pointing at good and bad font rendering on a few screens of common OS things: http://ark42.com/win8.1/192dpi...

I tried to do something pretty seemingly simple with Javascript (1 draggable line to redraw the background colors of the table), and it drags its ass on IE8. It is fast and smooth in FF/Opera/etc, but with so many people using IE still, it hardly matters.

Nope, I tried it with and without the dot, and couldn't get a cookie set for ".com." ever. See for yourself at http://ark42.com./mozilla/cookietest/test1.php

From what I can see, only Opera 8 is vulnerable. Firefox 1.5 and IE 6.0 both refused to show the .com. cookie ever.

http://ark42.com/google/gmapcache/

http://ark42.com/google/map.php

http://ark42.com/google/gmapcache/

http://ark42.com/google/map.php

http://ark42.com/google/gmapcache/

• Convert to/from png/tga/tif/bmp/ico
• split/join alpha channels to/from separate files
• split/join multi-page images into single images per page (tif/ico specific)
• split/join image tiles (where you, for example, have 8 16x16 toolbar icons stored as a 128x16 image)

Um, Windows 95, and maybe earlier, have this feature, as part of the OS.

http://ark42.com/freeimage/ShiftF1help.gif

Okay... The sample file here appears to be describing morphing a picture of a baby to a picture of grandpa, with 15 frames inbetween (unknown if this includes the original pictures). The dot array is most likely the control points for the morph.

Considering that I've never used Morpheus, and don't even know what it does (or didn't before this), I'd say that XML passes this test of readability hands down :)

Oh well I suppose, its not like there is any spyware or anything with it :P

http://ark42.com/morpheus/sample_aml_file.html

If you don't want to use the ugly IE5.5+ hack for alpha PNGs, you can at least set the background color setting in the PNG, which IE will use to blend into. I think you can set the background color tag from a pngcrush command line parameter if your software doesn't support that feature.

For example alpha-msg.png should show a message written in magenta (the background color) if your browser blends using the background color of the PNG instead of the background color of the page. If your background color is white, you won't see any message if you are using Mozilla/Firefox/Opera. If you put that image in a div with a white background and use a IE5.5+ alpha hack of some sort, the image's message actually makes sense too.

I'll give you the transparency (which IE does not support on PNG without gross hacks) but GIF supports infinite colors basically, in increments of 256.
gif-with-32697-colors

GIF may be indexed color, but since the animation extension is supposed to allow for multiple palettes that DO NOT overwrite the previous palette, as well as the ability to have each frame render a small piece of a larger picture with mostly transparent background, you can "draw" a true color GIF.

See gif-with-32697-colors.gif
If your browser draws it right, it will look like this

Note that the GIF is 180K and the PNG is 14K, but they are both truecolor.
Unfortunately, many non-animated programs will only display the first frame, so you only see the upper left corner, and some will improperly overwrite the palette of every frame with the current frame's palette, causing the image to pulse widely as it draws and end up in the wrong colors.

GIF may be indexed color, but since the animation extension is supposed to allow for multiple palettes that DO NOT overwrite the previous palette, as well as the ability to have each frame render a small piece of a larger picture with mostly transparent background, you can "draw" a true color GIF.

See gif-with-32697-colors.gif
If your browser draws it right, it will look like this

Note that the GIF is 180K and the PNG is 14K, but they are both truecolor.
Unfortunately, many non-animated programs will only display the first frame, so you only see the upper left corner, and some will improperly overwrite the palette of every frame with the current frame's palette, causing the image to pulse widely as it draws and end up in the wrong colors.