"An emoji is a coloured glyph."<p>OK. Stop right there. An emoji is a glyph, it need not be colored. The funny part, is that on my system and my fonts, all the examples (not provided as PNGs) are plain black-and-white renderings with the Symbola font. Even on Chrome on Linux, I don't even see the Canadian flag example she shows.<p>Really, most of this seems solid but it continues a rather annoying trend of assuming that Apple's font are <i>the</i> emoji. At least she recognizes that other fonts exist, but carries on this assumption...
FWIW, linux also has some emoji that are colour, albeit, gecko-only: <a href="https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font</a>
<i>Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen.</i><p>In the long run, I would have preferred Gretchen make fetch happen rather than Regina make this turn of phrase happen.
We're using emojis as icons within an internal app now, and it works fantastically. I was kinda against emojis at first but having seen the use cases, they seem to be working out well.
I could have done without the first paragraph, but other than that this was interesting and well written.<p>I particularly enjoyed the roll-over effect on the links.
hint: if you write an article about something that is broken and constantly moving by the hour, do not use that thing to document your article.<p>if she didn't use utf but images (to talk about the rendering) that article would have been something in 4 days, when it will be irrelevant because fonts and browsers will already have changed.<p>Also, people on the several platforms she dismissed as nobody-cares (android pre 5, linux, windows pre-7, etc) would have had a clue about the subject.