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Re: Drawing with zero-width characters

#14

Post by mkl »

benswerd wrote: post #2

Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.

Images of what it's supposed to look like would really help, as I'm pretty sure none of my browsers are rendering it as you hoped. For me in Chrome the first image looks vaguely like a landscape, with no identifiable features, and in Firefox it looks like grass (both on Android). The dog and tree shapes look distorted and glitchy, but recognisable if you know what they're supposed to be.

I spotted a typo: "font's like".

Re: Drawing with zero-width characters

#15

Post by benswerd »

mkl wrote: post #14
benswerd wrote: post #2

Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.

Images of what it's supposed to look like would really help, as I'm pretty sure none of my browsers are rendering it as you hoped. For me in Chrome the first image looks vaguely like a landscape, with no identifiable features, and in Firefox it looks like grass (both on Android). The dog and tree shapes look distorted and glitchy, but recognisable if you know what they're supposed to be. I spotted a typo: "font's lik…

Just pushed fix to typo — can you let me know which chromium browser on which platform?

I'm primarily testing on Vivaldi on MacOS but also confirmed working on Chrome on MacOS.

Re: Drawing with zero-width characters

#16

Post by gabcoh »

benswerd wrote: post #8
bawolff wrote: post #5

I can't tell if the results are just very bad or my browser is just not rendering properly. I feel like its probably the later but it would be cool to have a reference picture to be sure.

which browser are you using?

I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari

Re: Drawing with zero-width characters

#18

Post by kibwen »

frizlab wrote: post #17
gabcoh wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari

It apparently only works correctly on chromium-based browsers.

Appears to mostly work in Firefox, including in the browser tab title, which is funny.
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