Games and Graphics in Popup URL Bars

> Strangely sometimes an emoji in the URL bar will instead display as a non-emoji character.

@MatthewRayfield symbols that also existed pre-emoji-as-we-know-them-today default to the black-and-white variants in non-rich UI elements. You can tag on the variation selector invisible unicode point to force a representation (color emoji vs text symbol), assuming it's supported.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode...

Neat concepts here. Suprised how well Breakout and Donkey Kong worked in this... unusual format.

Also makes me wonder whether you could have a secret message hidden in the address bars of say, five different sites when their windows are stacked a certain way. Could make for a neat treasure hunt gimmick.

On the less positive side, it's probably best to keep this type of thing to fun/game orientated sites and personal projects, since stuff like animated address bars on business sites could get incredibly annoying if overused.

Still, nice work.

You can also use animated emoji graphics in website favicons with Emoji Favicon Toolkit.[1][2] The emoji glyphs are rendered with your system fonts similar to the OP demo.

1. https://eligrey.com/blog/favioli/

2. https://github.com/eligrey/emoji-favicon-toolkit

No big surprise here, but this does not work on my phone.

flips out in safari