So edgy. Must be peak edgelords working at Twitter these days.
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
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#12How do they technically implement this? Custom font? Or replace every emoji with an <img tag?
you can use a custom font for your site that includes glyphs for the characters you need (eg: a gun).
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#13The fact that the emoji was "censored" to begin with is weird to me. But the internet is weird and now people will be getting banned from X for using gun emojis to promote political violence.
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#14“Oh no the attempted murder of Jonald Chump was going too far, we need to cook down the discourse!” - every politician and pundit
“I want Twitter’s gun emoji to look like a real gun instead of a wussy toy!” - Elmo Munk
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#15This is exactly as stupid as changing it to a water pistol in the first place was
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#16I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
Fun fact – Apple will reject your app for using emojis in an unapproved way, for example as a UI element, button or reaction. Default system emojis can only be used within regular text. For any other use you have to import your own versions and can't use Apple's.
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#18How do they technically implement this? Custom font? Or replace every emoji with an <img tag?
Custom font is sensible fwiw. You can have a font with a single glyph implemented and you’ll override just that glyph, falling back to other fonts for the non implemented glyphs. This is why sites often have a list of fonts and not just one in the css. It’s also how other languages are supported. No Thai chars in your font? We just fall back until we hit a font with those glyphs available (might be an os level font rather than a site specified font but that’s fine).
I’d hate to try and hack a “intercept the text and add an image” type of system when the font rendering system has a trivial way to override individual glyphs already.
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#19It's interesting that Microsoft started with a toy gun, then someone around 2015-2016 made the decision to turn it into a real gun.
I noticed that too. If I had to guess, and I don't, I'd say they changed just to be in line with everyone else. Although I wish they would have gone back to the ray gun as a sort of "told you so".
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#20Wow. Microsoft's original version was a pretty good compromise. (they used a futuristic blaster icon)
Very inclusive of the Martian audience.