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Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images

tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That sucks.

I’d guess that what they were probably trying to do is make things work for random user who doesn’t have a font with said emojis installed and has no understanding of how to fix things.

Still seems like it’d be better to only fall back to rendering images if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed; I’m pretty sure that that’s doable.

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Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed

Then they can just download the font. No need for images

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- einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unless your on a mobile device and that’s not an option.
  
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  - Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why wouldn’t it be? I don’t mean persistently, they could just download it on every page load.
    
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    einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I guess webfonts would work.
    
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