A Broken Heart

stavros 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The conclusion of "yes, Claude helped fix this, but it also caused it by recommending an emoji font" seems a bit disingenuous to me. Using an emoji font is a good suggestion, it's not like Claude (or anyone) could have known there's an SVG but that will cause this slowness.

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llm_nerd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a legitimately fun piece about a bug (or extraordinary levels of inefficiency) in CoreSVG, manifested in massive computational loads to display a single SVG fallback for a colour-specified emoji.

But, isn't the heart emoji red anyways, across basically every font that has emojis? I mean, even with variations. I'm not sure what COLRv1 brings to that table for that scenario. Although maybe the special font is overkill if you really wanted to do something crazy with an emoji or text, and it seems to focus on gradients and the like.

Maybe this is why they humorously blame Claude for getting them to use that font and its affordances in the first place.

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StilesCrisis 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's not solid red. It has shading.

	▲	jsnell 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think the blog post itself is using that emoji font. The screenshot on the Noto Emoji Github page[0] doesn't look like it's using any gradients for the heart emoji, just flat shading. But it is using gradients for some of the other emojis (e.g. the croissant), and obviously the SVG fallback is all or nothing, not per-glyph. [0] https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

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llm_nerd 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

As a bit more on this, until this piece I was oblivious to this COLRv1 thing, which is adding more of SVG-style functionality to already vector font standards.

https://nabla.typearture.com/

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts

My natural cynicism is to ask "should a font really do this?" But I guess it's pretty neat.

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vdupras 5 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

... and a broken world.

How infuriating it is to see complexity so spuriously piled up upon an already holy mess.