[deaconblues]

Seems neat, and I appreciate the forward-thinking mentality. But, as far as I am aware, emoji are a fad and won't really stand the test of time anyway. Either way, I guess, it's nice to see these easy-to-use, easy-to-create principals in play.

[nostromo]

Emoji aren't going anywhere. They've been around in Japan for over a decade and have been enshrined forever in Unicode 6.

[Synaesthesia]

I thought so too, until I started using them in my messages to my friends and girlfriend. Now I find them an integral part of my communications. 😄

[ranran876]

Oh the irony. Your emoji comes out as a blank square for me (Windows 7 - Opera 12)

[wlesieutre]

Chrome does the blank square as well, but it works in Firefox and IE. (win7)

[heinrich5991]

Works for me in FF on Linux.

[davb]

Consider installing the Symbola font [1]. Where Unicode fallback works correctly, missing glyphs from the regular site font will be taken from Symbola. It's the most comprehensive freely available emoji font I could find (although it doesn't look anywhere as good as full color emojis and at average website font sizes can render a little too small to make out any detail).

[1] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

[shanselman]

Looks good here, IE11 on Windows 8.1

[raphman]

Opera 12 on Debian GNU/Linux shows it fine

[wubbfindel]

A few seem to be really missing the point of this article, which has little to do with emoji itself. TLDR; MS's approach to implementing a color emoji font could lead to a very useable color font format.

EDIT: typos

[deaconblues]

I think I addressed that in my comment. The article is a little about emoji, and I addressed that too.