Le 10/11/2021 à 22:11, Daniel Bratell a écrit :
The 0.0028% number is low, but I wonder what the effect will be on the
sites that use webkit-pictograph today. Will they get another font
containing the same glyphs, or is there a risk a symbol won't show at
all?
If they "just" gets a differently looking font, then the risk is even
smaller.
/Daniel
Hi, in general when you have a character in a page, browsers will do
their best to select a glyph for that characters, trying available
fonts, with the choice guided by the list specified in font-family. So I
believe (font expert please correct me if I'm wrong) removing a generic
font family should just affect the choice, not the visibility of the symbol.
Moreover, quoting the initial message of this thread:
Le 13/08/2021 à 14:23, Frédéric Wang a écrit :
- Apple Color Emoji on macOS (and iOS/WebKit)
- Segoe UI Symbol on Windows
- Times New Roman on Linux
- Noto Color Emoji on ChromeOS
- This feature is not implemented on Android.
So first this change won't affect Android. Moreover, I suspect we have
more fonts with good emoji coverage these days, compared to when this
was implemented 10 years ago (I'm not sure "Times New Roman" is really
helpful or the best choice on Linux for example).
Finally, as an alternative (and maybe replying to Yoav) we could in
parallel implement "font-family: emoji" as a replacement (keeping the
same preference on Desktop and maybe clever selection on Android) and
deprecate -webkit-pictograph (remapping it to "emoji" in the meantime).
This would be similar to what was done for "system-ui" here:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hvN9YVvIb5c
And we could also do the same in WebKit:
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-August/031938.html
What do you think?
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