Some time ago, I noticed that youtube comments are copied without emojis, thought nothing of that - bugs happen - but today I finally decided to find out why and what the hell is even this.

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    4 months ago

    Odds are they did it so everyone would have uniform emojis. Would also enforce the gun to squirt toy change. Also it may be a remedy for the fact that android updates suck ass. A new phone may never be updated and be stuck with old emojis. Google should have learned by now to abstract away the hardware drivers, but that would make too much sense.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    22·
    4 months ago

    it’s because on web people would get different designs according to which operating system is used. Marketing prefers uniformity. They could load a webfont, but color font support is not really universal and because people use always the same 10 emojis it’s faster to load only those cached pngs compared to a full webfont with 3000 emojis that aren’t even used in that specific page

    • tmpod@lemmy.ptEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      The web font would also be cached, and it wouldn’t be that big of a resource in the first place. I think being able to copy a comment’s content is more important, but whatever.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      It takes a lot more effort, leading to some developer keeping his job. Also, it increases the maintenance cost, again leading to some developer keeping his job.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    Absolutely ridiculous. For a company that touts web technologies down our throats all day, this is mind-boggling.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    Still liked emoticons better. The emojis all look cursed. But i am sure someone will misinterpret those too

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    4 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.

    Might be possible to revert the change with GreaseMonkey or something like that.

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed

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

      I bet this is about making the emoji animated or something