Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images
tal@lemmy.today 2 months 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.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Then they can just download the font. No need for images
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless your on a mobile device and that’s not an option.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Why wouldn’t it be? I don’t mean persistently, they could just download it on every page load.
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess webfonts would work.