# Testing on different browsers and platforms. :) 🌏 📱 💻 😱 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 8, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617 "2014-04-08T03:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/1 "2014-04-08T03:55:21Z")
😒 🔥 👀 👞 💭 🌏 🐁 🐖 🪲 ✒ 🎮 🍔 🍤 🍉 ✈ 🚹🚺 🍌 🐸 ☎ ☂ ❄ 🐅 🎺 ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/2 "2014-04-08T04:09:30Z")
�� Hmmm, that went well, didn’t it? I wonder why **shijinn** ’s emoticons worked and mine didn’t? ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/3 "2014-04-08T04:18:14Z")
i was playing with the ipad’s emoji keyboard, you? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/4 "2014-04-08T04:44:35Z")
MacBook Pro. I just used the ‘special characters’ in the drop down box, which seems to work everywhere else but here. So, were you using Safari on your iPad? ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/5 "2014-04-08T04:52:06Z")
Chrome, but this is with Safari now. 🍥 🍩 🍪 🍌 🌲 🌳 🌴 ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/6 "2014-04-08T06:28:30Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > Chrome, but this is with Safari now. �� �� �� �� �� �� �� Well, now I’m officially cranky. I must try on the iPad but I can’t work out why emoticons would work with that and not the MBP. �� ETA: well, blow me down. It worked this time. Weird. Worked first time, so I decided to edit. Then it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/7 "2014-04-08T06:30:14Z")
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**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/8 "2014-04-08T14:08:00Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✒ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✈ ������������ > > ������ ������ ☎ ☂ ❄ ������ ������ I am only seeing 6 of the above as anything other than boxes with hex codes in them. > [@shijinn](#): > > Chrome, but this is with Safari now. ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ Not seeing any of the above as anything other than boxes with hex codes in them. Firefox 28.0 on Ubuntu Linux. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/9 "2014-04-08T14:48:10Z")
Emoji works strangely in vBulletin. You can post them, but editing or quoting a post with emoji tends to break them. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/10 "2014-04-09T00:47:16Z")
One last try. ������ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/11 "2014-04-09T00:57:46Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > I am only seeing 6 of the above as anything other than boxes with hex codes in them. Strangely enough, in your quote box I can see only _5_ of them. But all of **shijinn** ’s emotions come through for me on Safari. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/12 "2014-04-09T01:02:06Z")
I see **shijin** ’s little pictures just fine in their original incarnation, but not on any of the quotes. I’m on the latest version of Firefox, on OSX 10.9. As a test, here’s a manual copy-and-paste quote of them: > [@](#): > > Quoth **shijin** : > > ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✒ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✈ ������������ > > ������ ������ ☎ ☂ ❄ ������ ������ What happens to those things if you try to change the text color? ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✒ ������ ������ ������ ������ ✈ ������������ ������ ������ ☎ ☂ ❄ ������ ������ ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/13 "2014-04-09T10:14:56Z")
same here, i’m not seeing anything in the quotes. my takeaway is that browsers don’t matter on the ipad, all of them work; while on the pc, Chrome doesn’t see anything, IE can see them but renders the pictures with a different font. can anyone on Android see anything? > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Strangely enough, in your quote box I can see only _5_ of them. … i count 5 too. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/14 "2014-04-09T11:46:48Z")
🙈🙉🙊. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/15 "2014-04-09T13:39:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > 🙈🙉🙊. Showoff! ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/16 "2014-04-10T03:12:08Z")
They show up beautifully in the mouseover text but boxes with question marks in the thread ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/17 "2014-04-10T16:04:47Z")
Posting emoji in the quick reply box in Tapatalk doesn’t work. Let’s try the full reply window. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/18 "2014-04-10T16:06:01Z")
Nope. You can see emoji with Tapatalk, but you can’t make a post with them. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/19 "2014-04-10T22:29:08Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Emoji works strangely in vBulletin. You can post them, but editing or quoting a post with emoji tends to break them. Yip. This is an issue with any special characters. I remember running into this problem using non-breaking spaces. You can’t preview them or quote them. The only way to keep them is to go back to the old copy-and-paste method. That’s what I’m doing to show you that I can only see the following characters on my Windows XP netbook: ✒ ✈ ☎ ❄ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617/20 "2014-04-21T00:47:13Z")
Now that I’ve got a Win7 computer again, �� �� �� are the only characters in this thread that I cannot see. (I’m not counting anything that has been converted to a question box, as I can actually see the question box.) And apparently I can’t copy-and-paste anymore. It seems that the text box uses a different character encoding than the actual web page. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-on-different-browsers-and-platforms/685617.md?page=2)