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Add smileys support ?

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I was thinking it would be cool to replace some common signs by smileys in posts and comments. It's an easy thing to implement and it can add some coolness to the UI. Don't you think ?

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goob Sun 21 Sep 2014 5:09PM

I also think no.

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Sun 21 Sep 2014 5:29PM

Aww, I wasn't aware this created such a debate.

But the idea of @flaburgan seem good, though, I mean place a table of UTF-8 smileys ?

To be honest, one of the thing that concerns me a bit is that Jappix Mini has a smileys auto-replacement. It would definitely break the unity of the d* user interface if the user could use smileys-replacement in the chat and not in the rest of d*. So, should we definitely take this feature out the chat, or adapt it in all d* ?

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Flaburgan Mon 22 Sep 2014 10:31AM

It would definitely break the unity of the d* user interface if the user could use smileys-replacement in the chat and not in the rest of d*

iirc facebook does that. But yeah, we probably don't need emoticon in the chat too.

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goob Mon 22 Sep 2014 10:40AM

Do you mean that we need emoticons (text-based) rather than smileys (graphical) in the chat?

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Mon 22 Sep 2014 10:47AM

I mean nothing. I just think that emoticons in chat is a very important feature and we can't suppress it and that it looks more professionnal if we have the same features in the publisher, the comments, the messages and the chat.

But we can only have text-based emoticons. I just wonder if it wouldn't be a problem for browser that don't use UTF-8 (IE, maybe ?)

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goob Mon 22 Sep 2014 5:27PM

My comment was addressed to Fla's "But yeah, we probably don’t need emoticon in the chat too" - apologies that wasn't clear enough.

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Eric Dorman Wed 24 Sep 2014 4:59AM

This is a hot topic for sure debate wise, but as this product goes I think there may be more important features that need to be added. Don't get me wrong smileys are great, but I am not sold on it yet...

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Brent Bartlett Wed 24 Sep 2014 9:07PM

My complaint with the way that most smilies are implemented is that when I type a colon and a right paren, I want it to appear as a colon and a right paren...I don't want it to automatically get converted into a graphic. Want to insert UTF-8 smilies? Sure, why not. How about a table of images you can select from that get inserted inline? Cool beans.

I want to be able to still make ASCII smilies, though. And I don't want TL;DR to turn into TL(winky-grin face)R.

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goob Thu 25 Sep 2014 3:39PM

It would be good to have user settings both to 'Turn my emoticons into smileys' (ON/OFF) and 'Replace smileys with emoticons' (ON/OFF). That way, each person can choose both whether text-emoticons they enter get turned into smileys, and also whether smileys created by other users are displayed in their streams.

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