[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36955: Remove emoji from core.

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#36955: Remove emoji from core.
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 Reporter:  Online-marketing  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Emoji             |     Version:  4.5.2
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                    |     Focuses:
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Changes (by jorbin):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi Online-marketing, welcome to trac.

 The emoji script fixes browser display issues for emoji.  Without it,
 emoji would just be displayed as an empty box and that is a horrid
 experience for readers. [https://peterwilson.cc/intuition-is-crap/ Testing
 has shown no change in page load/render time] for browsers that don't need
 the polyfill.

 If you aren't using emoji anywhere (including user comments) or prefer to
 provide a bad experience to some users, https://wordpress.org/plugins
 /disable-emojis/ is a plugin that will remove the script for you.

 Closing as maybelater as the script will be removed one day, but we are
 likely years away from that happening. We need all browsers to completely
 support emoji and the usage share for browsers that don't support it to
 drop much closer to zero.

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