What are the most useful or beautiful monochrome or grayscale websites you know? I'm looking for CSS/JS ideas to steal for http://gwern.net .
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One of the difficulties with improvements is the need to constantly check it works on mobile. When I began, mobile was negligible. But December 2019-February 2019 saw a grim & dark & likely irreversible milestone: for the first time, mobile traffic surpassed desktop traffic.pic.twitter.com/1xk8K4xg3K
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Web dev, jesus christ. Look at this crap: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5469 … "Gee, those are nice Unicode symbols you have there in your font. Sure would be a shame if someone unilaterally by default converted them all to a dayglo kindergarten emoji with no sane way to override it."
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I also get the substitution in Firefox and Chrome on MacOS. But, oddly, not in Safari on MacOS, so it seems not to be at the OS level?
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This contrast (between dev rendering and user rendering) suggests Firefox thinks you should want this, and you’ll get it whether you want it or notpic.twitter.com/1dj5UqT85z
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/sighs deeply as he ponders the life choices which have led him to this pass Does adding VARIANT SELECTOR-15 to the arrows in the dev tools at least fix it in all the browsers?
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Replying to @gwern
Working on it. There’s something subtle and demonic going on. (I’ve been bugged by this for years, myself, btw; just never reached the threshold of “wtf”)
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OK, best as I can figure: adding FEOE/VS-15 doesn’t help. Tried doing this several ways and none worked but it’s possible I’m faking myself out somehow.
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Also, this is semi-somewhat Github’s fault. It explicitly includes the Apple Emoji font in the CSS. If I suppress that then the arrow displays normally.
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I’m not sure what Firefox’s algorithm is for choosing which font to use, but would guess that it is ok per web standards, when a codepoint is not provided by the preferred font, to choose any among the supplied list that provides the codepoint (or valid alt, as in this case).
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