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in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB?

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

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Re^5: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Oct 22, 2023 at 12:07 UTC

    G'day K🛌,

    Thanks for the clarifications. Much appreciated.

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

    Agreed.

    After patiently refraining from using "image miniatures" for sixteen long years after my initial attempt of 2007, due to bandwidth concerns, it's been refreshing to play around with them again. So thanks for the prod. :)

    As a way to repay you - as you may have noticed from the opening G'day salutation above - I've created a Unicode emoji for your kcott user name. Though we're both from Australia, I've used the US/Canadian meaning of cott (an obsolete spelling of cot) as "a simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes". In Australia/NZ, a cot is "a bed for infants or small children", but I couldn't find a Unicode emoji for an infant's bed. :) 

    👁️🍾👍🦟
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      I've created a Unicode emoji for your kcott user name.

      Oh dear ... there are some user names for which it might be better to not do that ;-)

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        "Oh dear" indeed:

        ☺️ 🍆 ☹️ 🥒 🤒 🥔 🤢

        😁 🤣 🙇 ⛈️ 💩 💨 🩲 😬

        — Ken

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      I have been trying to think of one for myself. The closest I came (which also included a bed/cot; although unoccupied) was:

      👌🏻🛏️🫖

      Which I think is pretty lame. 😢

      — Ken

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        Which I think is pretty lame

        I really like it for the inventive way you made it pure pictorial via the ok hand for the letter k and the teapot for the letter t.

        Googling for "ott" revealed that Ol Chiki script contains a letter with the name ott ... and it's shaped like a camel hump! ... leading to:

        👌🇨 ᱴ

        To make it pure pictorial we might try:

        👌🌊🐪 

        👁️🍾👍🦟
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