Support for Emojis

[martec]

We forgive you for being wrong. The emoji functionality comes from the text formatter library mentioned throughout this topic and is not a function within phpBB. If anything the attribution would be there. Won't really matter much anyways as the last few posts have been about the author of that library getting rid of emojione usage and going with something else.

Thanks for the information and sorry again.

[JoshyPHP]

I'm considering forking either Twemoji or Noto with filenames that match Emojione for backward compatibility, but I need to check that it can be hosted by a free CDN such as cdnjs.

Twemoji


Noto

I have unofficially forked Noto Emoji as an experiment. You can use it on phpBB with this extension: https://github.com/s9e/phpbb-ext-noto-e ... oemoji.zip

Below are the images hosted on jsDelivr, an Open Source CDN that doesn't sucks and serves SVGZ files correctly.

[DavidIQ]

Since it was brought up: is there still a plan to replace EmojiOne with something else or has there been some change in their licensing for what they provide through CDN?

[JoshyPHP]

Personally I have no plans whatsoever. I do maintain the Noto fork but I have no plans for it either.

The only reliable emoji set that's on a public CDN is Twemoji and it uses a different naming scheme as the one used in s9e\TextFormatter. Switching to it would require some work.

[martti]

I've just posted two issues regarding the Emojis.

• Emojis are loaded from external CDN even when "allow third party CDN" is disabled in ACP
• Incompatible license Emojione 3.1 with open source

[3Di]

It seems to me martti you are bound to make bigger something that could be easily dealt with. IMHO.
Let's examine the facts/license. https://www.emojione.com/licenses/free#attribution

* Free license allows for use of non-vector (PNG) icons, up to 128px - in fact ( https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/asset ... 4/2764.png )

* May not redistribute assets - no one he's doing that, in fact are served via CDN.

* May not include icons in open source projects ( no icons are included, see above)

* Free license requires proper attribution ... (... In the footer of every page where emoji are shown ... )
.. here there is something to do as a matter of fact, simply placing in the overall_footer.html file an extra line of credits IMO. Thoughts?

Not to mention we are on the issue reported as to fix a thing about the CDN's delivery settings.

[GanstaZ]

Wont title attribute in emoji tag solve credit line problem?

[3Di]

Wont title attribute in emoji tag solve credit line problem?

Not really, they are really nitpicking ... ofcourse.

That's the real excerpt from their rules.

In the footer of every page where emoji are shown

So I am assuming that the credit line should do it better. My personal 2 €uroCents.

[martti]

IMO,

phpBB is already way too heavy. phpBB should evolve towards lightweight and flexible. That means: not trying to put everything in core and enhance the possibilities for extending. That enhances the experience for everyone (admins & developers). Emojis should not be in core. Admins should choose the emojis (and if they want them), their license and from where they are served, and choose which extension implementation works best for them.

[martti]

It seems to me martti you are bound to make bigger something that could be easily dealt with. IMHO.
Let's examine the facts/license. https://www.emojione.com/licenses/free#attribution

* Free license allows for use of non-vector (PNG) icons, up to 128px - in fact ( https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/asset ... 4/2764.png )

* May not redistribute assets - no one he's doing that, in fact are served via CDN.

* May not include icons in open source projects ( no icons are included, see above)

* Free license requires proper attribution ... (... In the footer of every page where emoji are shown ... )
.. here there is something to do as a matter of fact, simply placing in the overall_footer.html file an extra line of credits IMO. Thoughts?

Not to mention we are on the issue reported as to fix a thing about the CDN's delivery settings.

The page you are referring says " ... May not include icons in open source projects". It's unclear what that means. However the Free License Agreement itself says:

3.4 What can’t you do with the EmojiOne Properties?
...
(F) Use it in open source projects.
...
(M) Use it without proper attribution (as described in Section 4)

In order to clear things up, I've send a message to EmojiOne through their contact-form and requested to comment on the current implementation in phpBB. (referring this topic and the ticket).