[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24970: Retina Smilies

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#24970: Retina Smilies
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 Reporter:  miqrogroove  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Formatting   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:14 Ipstenu]:
 > We didn't with capital_p_dangit().

 And look how many people still complain about that to this day...


 > And you can make a plugin to flip them back. Putting them in Jetpack,
 and only jetpack, however, puts an onus on people to install a rather
 large plugin they may not want nor need.
 >
 > The reverse is true here, you can have a plugin to continue to use the
 old ones.

 Which is of course exactly what I'll do, because I'm perfectly capable of
 writing such a plugin, and I started doing just that the last time this
 was attempted in core. Never finished because the change was reverted, but
 still.

 If this upsets me, don't you think some other people will be upset too?
 Seems to me that we're going down this bad road a bit too often. The
 content should remain the same no matter what happens to core.

 Like it or not, those smilies are content. If you're going to change them,
 you need to make sure you don't change them on existing content without
 permission. That tends to tick people off. Also, backwards compatibility
 and all that.

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