We are a social media platform right? We have comments, we have posts.... We have A lot more...that everyone knows it.... we reward!!

  

Our stylistic post creating is still missing a lot of things.. and using markdown is not always,and attractice solution to a lot of simple internet users.

What is we could spice it up a little bit? 

I looked arround to create a browser plugin.. but a lot users use IOS and android phones, a lot use Safari browser.. And probably a lot use chrome. Thats what stopped me for trying to make a simple Emoticon reader plugin.

I ended up searching something open sourced... Easy, and pretty common to us all...

TWEETER!! 

As we all know... Twitter has opensourced its emoticon libraries... Thats a really good thing...I gathered as much info as i could find. and combined with some knowledge on website building.. i decided to make this proposal.

Dear steemit developers @dan @ned @val

This is my proposal for enabling emoticons on steemit... 

First of all Twitter  wanted to make emoji available,for that they teamed up with a company called Icon Factory to render browser imitations of the text message symbols.  

 https://github.com/twitter/twemoji 

1) Obtain Unicode Support For Emoji

 Unicode is an international encoding standard that assigns a string of characters to any symbol, letter, or digit people want to use online. This is how WE read something, and how the computer interprets it..

We can use the twitter emoji by simply messing with our section of the html page.

So now we have access to the Javascript library, that contains the emoji that work-appear on tweeter.

Doing this... our html is open for accepting emojis... but we actually need to insert some on the main body of our html...

So i will make a simple example... we can find emoji examples in the Tweeters github. 

https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/gh-pages/preview.html

  

 i randomly choose some emoticons from the preview list.

and saved the txt as html... running it i got this:

  

So far so good... How can we remember or test all these things? 

2) ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE using twemoji-awesome

Again on github  @ellekasai

http://ellekasai.github.io/twemoji-awesome/

Downloading ellekasai's stylesheet on a html page, we can use words to find out what emojis we use...

http://www.webpagefx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/

Thats a nice cheatsheet with a lot of common emojis used.

Lets go again and test it.. first of all we need to put the stylesheet.css from ellekasai in the same folder where our html test file is located.

  

And in the section we must add the link to the css file.

 

 The i and span elements are widely used to add icons 

  

following the instructions from ellekasai

we must use twa followed by twa-emoticonname 

so we copy from the cheatsheet

and we replace :emoticon: with twa-emoticon

  

And the browser responds 

  

Here we can find tweeters emojis... (be careful it will slow your browser)

http://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/test/preview.html

An emoticon example hosted on maxcdn server. 

There are many other solutions too... this would make steemit look and feel more user friendly...

All the major social media use emoticons why not steemit too?

Sources

https://github.com

https://github.com/laurenorsini/Emoji-Everywhere

http://ellekasai.github.io/twemoji-awesome/

#emoticons #steemitwebsite #proposals #steemit

See? i can even write my name with emoticons