Re: Smiling Faces
- Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Dec 23, 2005
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Robert Craig wrote: > > Juergen Luethje wrote: > > ( The original post showed a little picture instead of "colon dash > > right-paren". ) > > Then re-convert it to "colon dash right-paren" for e-mail and RSS, > > please. > > I'm not changing what's sent through Topica. > > I'm just converting colon dash right-paren > to a smiley picture on the RDS EUforum Web pages. > This also causes the RSS feed to have a picture > instead of 3 characters, but Thunderbird RSS handles > this OK, displaying the picture. I'm not sure about > other RSS readers - I might have to change something. > > I look forward to seeing your new RSS reader. > I guess you don't handle full HTML. Just text. > Maybe you can convert the smiley URL back to > colon dash right-paren. But first let's see how other > RSS readers handle it. > > jxliv7 wrote: > > One of the things that appeals to me about the Euphoria forum is the > > maturity. > > It makes this forum about code seem professional. > > > > I equate smily faces of any sort with newbees and immaturity. They distract > > from the text and they (if allowed) are overused. > > > > Please, Rob, tell me what good little smiley faces are and how they relate > > to > > Euphoria? > > A lot of people already type in colon dash right-paren, > or something similar. It won't hurt to see a graphical smiley instead. > It already shows up graphically with some e-mail clients. > I'm not planning to add any more, except maybe the sad face > > I don't think I need to explain the value of emoticons in > text communication, though the more unusual ones are often lost > on the majority of the audience. > > As for how a smiley face relates to "Euphoria" - just > look up "Euphoria" in a dictionary. > > (See - without the emoticon, you'd be really pissed off > at me, but with the emoticon, you are only mildly pissed off.) > > Regards, > Rob Craig > Rapid Deployment Software > <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a> My favorite smiley is ;^) (because I have a big nose) but nothing seems to translate it correctly. But anyway, how about winkies? I'm not sure what "eyes rolling" looks like as an emoticon, but it's pretty cool as a graphic. See arstechnica posts, or http://www.pegasus3d.com/download/giant_rolleyes.gif (shrunk down, of course) -- "Actually, I'm sitting on my butt staring at a computer screen." - Tom Tomorrow j.