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If I’m trying to convince you that native emoji are worth investing in for your website, I’ve probably lost half my audience at this point. In the case of minor releases (such as Emoji 13.1), it can mean that the emoji renders as a bizarre “double” emoji – some of my favorites include “man with floating wig of red hair” (👨🦰) for “man with red hair” (👨‍🦰) and “bear with snowflake” (🐻❄️) for “polar bear” (🐻‍❄️). In the case of major releases (such as Emoji 14.0), a missing character means the “robot barf” shown above.

Apple Color Emoji on iOS, Microsoft Segoe Color Emoji on Windows, etc.). And the browser, in most cases, is beholden to the OS to render whatever emoji fonts are provided by the underlying system (e.g.

I DUNNO SMILEY UPDATE

The first major problem is that, although emoji are released by the Unicode Consortium at a yearly cadence, OSes don’t always update in a timely manner to add the latest-and-greatest characters. But sadly, if you try to avoid these heavy-handed techniques and just, you know, use emoji on the web, you’ll quickly run into the kinds of problems I describe above.

You don’t need to bring your own heavy emoji font, or use a spritesheet, or do any manual DOM processing to replace text with s. When it comes to emoji, there are a lot of potential upsides to using the platform. I try to “use the platform” as much as possible and lean on existing web standards and browser capabilities. If I don’t have to rebuild something from scratch, then I’ll avoid doing so. If you’re like me, you’re a minimalist when it comes to web development. It’s not much better than the robot barf. It’s a fun bit of cartoon iconography to know that this combination means “dizzy face,” but for most folks, it doesn’t really evoke the same meaning. If not, you might see a puzzling combination of face with crossed-out eyes and a shooting (“dizzy”) star: If you see a face with spiral eyes, then wonderful! Your browser can render Emoji 13.1, released in September 2020.

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