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Re: emoticons
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:41:27 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Any chance of getting the coding to display "emoticons" as graphics?
> 
> Why indeed, yes, there is! -- and it's funny you should mention it because
> it's something Suz and I were just giggling about a couple days ago.  It
> turns out that a half dozen or so of the most common smileys translate
> nicely into minifig heads.

LOL!

And here we were shooting down the idea, when I'll bet none of us realized
minifigs would be so cool in that application.

> > [who expects purists may not like this]
> 
> That was mainly what has kept us from doing it in the past when it was
> suggested years ago.
> 
> But! -- if it is an opt-in kind of thing with a browser cookie, then nobody
> has to see them who doesn't want to.

Good plan! :) (classic smilie)

> It's almost a trivial feature to add to the web interface (provided it
> parses parentheticals correctly :-).
> 
> Maybe you'll see it for April Fool's Day or something...  :)  Or maybe it's
> not worth doing...  :(

I think it's a cute feature, and as long as it's opt-in, won't hurt at all!

No animated ones though...

-Tim



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(...) Why indeed, yes, there is! -- and it's funny you should mention it because it's something Suz and I were just giggling about a couple days ago. It turns out that a half dozen or so of the most common smileys translate nicely into minifig (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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