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Smyface.com - the status emoticon is back, updated, and fun

smyface.com

27 pointsstevejalim19 comments

It's simple, but it invariably makes me smile whenever I go near it.

The custom favicon to match any generated 'smyface' is nice touch, too :o)

This reminds me of something I started many years ago (2007-03-10) I wanted to track my mood throughout the day and eventually over years to see how different events and times of the year effected me, does anyone know of anything that exists for that now?

(only slightly related, please forgive me)

Something we put together back in '98 and one of the guys still keeps it running: http://www.imood.com It's not what you would call "well designed", but it was fun back in the day and managed to get a bunch of users back then.

Ah! I'm pretty sure that's the site I recalled when I learned about smyface. Small world!

So did you discover any pattens?

http://mercuryapp.com for tracking your feelings about specific things.

I would like to see something like this integrated into 750words now that you mention it

Haha, that reminds me of something I wrote a while back, as an exercise while learning Django... Perhaps I could still put it online somewhere... :)

Funny idea! The magic slider doesn't work in FF 3.6.13 on Mac OS X.

FWIW: Worked fine on my FF 3.6.13 on Mac OS X

...on 10.6.6 mbp

EDIT: no extensions on my FF

Thanks for verifying, it's working for me as well now. Apparently, I had JavaScript disabled. D'oh!

Annoying to have to dig the link out of the twitter section.

preloading those face images would greatly improve the experience.

(or use a css sprite)

"(or use a css sprite)"

You mean like this one... http://smyfaceimages.s3.amazonaws.com/moods_orange.png ?

(yes, it's a bit of a mammoth image, but that's animation for you...)

hm strange. for me, the first time I loaded the page and whizzed the slider back and forth, it felt like each face was loading separately (faces were half-loaded etc).

or it could have been just the large sprite was still downloading as I was sliding the bar.

in which case, probably best to preload it :)

Are you on a slow connection? Has always seemed fine here. Or perhaps that s3 bucket is not near your part of the world, so a bit slower for you than me

Why did you choose to divide the image into lines? Wouldn't one long line (or tall column) make the code a bit simpler?

I had it as one tall column originally, but it turns out that one particular browser (Firefox, I think it was) refuses to render 44200px-high images.

> refuses to render 44200px-high images

COWARD!

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