Emoji Random Slideshow Primer Tutorial
We’ve got a Random Emoji Slideshow for you today, a project long in the thinking, and helped out enormously by the great Open Source community on the net, two webpages from which we’d like to point you towards, regarding this topic …
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22006218/replace-emoji-unicode-symbol-using-regexp-in-javascript
- http://xahlee.info/js/js_unicode_code_point.html
You may recall from the recent Karaoke via YouTube API in Iframe Emoji Tutorial our old approach to finding technically useful information from the net when we said …
How do we find the emojis we want? Well, at the entry level and exit level we have, respectively …
- searches for relevant words in Google search engine … eg. “video game emoji” Google search as per this link
- and hope to arrive at the http://www.fileformat.info website for the technical details necessary … eg. Unicode Character ‘VIDEO GAME’ (U+1F3AE) HTML Entity (decimal) 🎮 is what is useful to us, in HTML coding as a value= value for HTML input elements or innerHTML property of HTML a elements, for instance
The steps in between the two above tends to be a bit variable. For the example above, we ended up at Google’s first suggestion, which we often end up at, at the domain emojipedia.org, specifically this link and its “Codepoints” section value U+1F3AE that when refed back into Google search engine (for us, by literally typing it into the address bar) you get a first result sending you to http://www.fileformat.info website’s Unicode Character ‘VIDEO GAME’ (U+1F3AE) as above. However, we did not always use emojipedia.org as our “middle guide” here. There are many references out there.
… but the word we didn’t hone in on then, that we’d like to hone in on now … better late than never … is Codepoint, regarding Character Encoding, quite a big, and at many times, confusing, subject matter in Information Technology. But you wouldn’t really expect it to be otherwise, as it is a matter with Internationalization getting us … all of us non-Martians … together on representing ourselves, with all our different language and symbology methods of communicating, out there on the “palette” that the internet is for so many of us … though, think we should invite any Martians in to Internet cafe sessions over nibbles, don’t you think?
For us, the useful technical thing to take away, is, for Emojis … and other symbology is even easier …
&#[Codepoint]
… is “lookable uppable” these days on the search engines, and so our Emoji Slideshow web application today, in which there is nothing for you to do regarding the slideshow, leaves you with spare time to click either …
- the random emoji itself … or …
- the “Codepoint” link
… to start up a Google search regarding that, that we’ve found, for most emojis, gets you quickly to some good technical information with the links up the top of the search engine results.
Happy Emoji making with our HTML and Javascript emoji_slideshow.html and its slideshow live run.
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