Tag Archives: Pictograms
Emoji set to live long and prosper, thanks to Unicode
February 24, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
You've probably seen them. Your mom probably uses them to sign off her texts, and your teenage cousin has likely abandoned the Roman alphabet altogether in their favour. Emoji are everywhere, and love them or loathe them, they can't be ignored... Read More
Developing custom pictograms for the mobile Web
March 6, 2013, by casaise
A matter of trade-offs Pictograms – miniature graphical representations of states, actions and objects – made their way into the mobile Web over 15 years ago. Several normalized (UNICODE, WAP) and proprietary (Japanese emojis, Openwave) mechanisms are in place to enrich Web applications with pre-defined images... Read More
A Guide to Using Pictograms in Mobile Applications
November 6, 2012, by casaise
A long-standing feature Developers inspecting the user agent profile of a modern handset like the Motorola XT682 ATRIX TV may be surprised to discover the following ImageCapable declaration which indicates whether a device can display images or not: Yes... Read More
