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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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post #38

This reminds me of putting marquees in the window.status like 20 years ago

The spirit is there definitely. My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used. Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

I created a small library for Ruby/Rails that aliased a few methods with emojis. You could remove database objects by using the gun emoji, or trim a string with the scissors emoji.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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post #38

This reminds me of putting marquees in the window.status like 20 years ago

The spirit is there definitely. My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used. Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

> Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

knowing a few people in this world, I am sure that this will certainly happen way before you can have variables named α, β, γ

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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post #17

This is very cute and all but... you know... don't actually do this! Please. Even if you make it so that it doesn't break the back button or history, URLs are things that people copy and paste and send to people. They are put into Word-documents, bookmarks and archive.org. It's not a place for dynamic animations. URLs should be static, simple, and as short as is reasonable.

That's not for you to decide.
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