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Chrome For OS X Catches Up With Safari's Emoji Support
According to The Next Web, Emoji support has landed in the latest developer builds of Chrome for OS X, meaning that emoji can be seen on websites and be entered into text fields for the first time without issues. ... Users on Safari on OS X could already see emoji on the Web without issue, since Apple built that in. The bug in Chrome was fixed on December 11, which went into testing on Chrome’s Canary track recently. From there, we can expect it to move to the consumer version of Chrome in coming weeks.
Based on most Android and iOS articles I've read on /., this should really be two articles:
1. Apple ships support for Emoji ships, but it's rubbish and no one needs it anyway.
2. Google's amazing new Emoji for is almost ready to ship, revolutionising web browsing on OS X.
A) No one here uses emoji
B) No one here gives a fuck if you can enter emoji into a text field.
C) Why the fuck is the fact that you cant put emoji in a TEXT field considered a bug. Its a fucking TEXT field.
How is this not included in regular old unicode support? Is this about input method support? Should that be a browser feature? I thought text input should be standardized on a OS level. Each application doing different text input is crazy.
emoji is lame bullshit for weeabos anyway.
3. Amazing astroturfing exercise by Chrome fanbois observed in /.
Oh great, more tiny pictures chosen by some arbitrary process, so that everyone's expression becomes more the same and more like the plastic people in soap operas, and even less language proficiency. A whole generation of TV-watchers and Social Media Addicts already talks that way, and now we want to have symbols so we can express THAT more efficiently in WRITING? Exactly what we need..
I make me don't want Net Neutrality after all. I'm now willing to pay for an Internet fast lane that requires an IQ test.
Oh but wait.. Apple.. right.. who cares..
Subject says it all.
A plague on the internet and SMS those shitty, retarded little pieces of shit.
Instead of making Chrome usable on mac laptops, we get emoji support...
Guys, just fix the high CPU/battery usage already please. Thanks!
Trolls are like broken clocks. They show the truth two times a day. The rest of the day they talk nonsense.
What the fuck is an emoji.
suppose to care?
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Agree with this one. It regularly happens to me, as well.
I mean, I can sort of live with messages from people using Windows containing some sort of elongated lowercase j where, I learned years ago, they had inserted a smiley face and mistakenly assumed that this would be universally seen as such, but it's a whole different game where we're trying to be compact and logical, by using certain symbols such as brackets etc.. only to find one's correspondent is puzzled by the emotions conveyed by some round-headed Simpsons faces rendered by their email clients instead of what we meant. Not to mention the shame of apparently unpaired brackets.. Sorry for the long sentences: I'm in a hurry..
Chrome has awful battery life compared to any other browser. We need that more than smilies.
Special characters support depends on the font you use, no? So just make a font that includes them your default browser font. That's a simple setting, you don't need a new browser version to do that. On websites, text with emojis should of course be styled with a font that supports them, and a webfont should be provided at least for fallback. But that's the web author's responsibility.
Now what I would really love to see is a good IME (character picker) for all special characters in browsers. It should be interactive and not require the use of pointing devices, because it's a nuisance to switch between keyboard and mouse/touch.
Another reason browsers are way too bloated. This stuff does not come for free. Not to mention the possible security implications. What happens when a malformed emoj is put in the address field? What about in the preferences? What about as a http-header?
Seriously, some features should just not be implemented, just like kids should not be given everything they ask for. Not everything you want is good for you, nor good for the internet.
And get off my lawn.
Neither the summary nor the article explains what emoji is, or why we care that Chrome supports it.
Rule #1 for any Internet article or summary - MAKE US CARE! Explain what it is and why we care.
"Emoji, the new Japanese malware, is now available for Chrome and Safari on OS/X, allowing Mac users to create their own malware. Peter Blah, director of cyberanalysis at the Freedom Unlimited Directory, said 'this could destroy the Internet' and offered his consulting services. Anti-virus vendors are scrambling to release PHP plugins to combat this malware."
I don't know what Emoji actually is, but I made that up and it's more coherent than either the article or the summary.
WTF people?
... converts text into graphical Emoji by default.
We used Messenger at my last job, and this "feature" would destroy any reference to (among other things) time. I would type something like "the process died at 5:17, causing all orders entered after that to be hosed", and Messenger would "helpfully" replace the time with some stupid smiley face.
Sure, it could be turned off (but I believe it had to be turned off by everyone), but what a stupid default for what is supposedly a business application.
Let's face it. Apple, known to all as a true innovator, is being taken over with stagnation. Once again, without Steve Jobs as a strong leader, it has rested on its laurels to let competitors overtake it. Google, which was lagging behind in important international emoji support in Chrome, was able to finally catch up to Apple, but only because of the latter's sitting on its hands. To Apple's fans, it's another slap in the face of lagging behind. Look, Google is now the true leader in emoji support and most analysis expect Apple to continue its downward slide towards oblivion. Expect Apple stock do drop by 50% over the next few days.
In other news, slashdot still lacks UTF-8 support
Russia is destabilized, the US is making it increasingly obvious that it has plans to
begin aggression against North Korea as it did with Iraq and Afghanistan, and you
wastes of genetic material think THIS SHIT IS NEWSWORTHY ?
If this is the best you Slashdot "editors" can do, just leave some blank space instead.
One wonders how, for thousands of years, writers managed to convey the tone of their writing without emoticons. Have we become worse writers, or denser readers? It's a form of laziness, isn't it?
-- sudon't
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