OpenEuphoria

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)

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