G'day 👁️🍾👍🦟,

I pasted the HTML you provided in my Private (Edit) Scratchpad: it rendered as you described with an animated eye followed by three static emoji. Switching to my Private (View) Scratchpad, I saw: 

<img src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/latest/1f441_fe0f/512.gif"
alt="👁" width="32" height="32">

followed by three static emoji.

It's always been my understanding that the <img> tag is not allowed on PM. I do seem to recall reading that somewhere; I can't find it quickly. That tag does not appear in "Perl Monks Approved HTML tags".

So, allowing <img> in Private (Edit) Scratchpad is possibly a mistake; alternatively, it may have been done on purpose for some reason I don't know about. It should probably be disallowed there too.

An emoji is just a character, it's a few more bytes than an ASCII character, but that's all. Your blinking eye is not an emoji: it's a GIF image with a size of 258,960 bytes. I note that it's too big for the 80kB (upload) limit for a home node image.

Emoji have been used on this site responsibly. Some have used ☺️ in lieu of :-) (or similar) in a few places. Occasionally, we've had a bit of fun, in a few isolated groups of nodes, where several emoji have been used. I'd like to see that status quo continued.

In general, I do not like blinking or flashing content; I find it distracting and annoying.

With the <img> tag disallowed, animated emoji are banned by default. Let's keep it that way.

— Ken

In reply to Re^4: Larger profile pic than 80KB? by kcott
in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB? by stevieb

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