Faruk Ateş

I just needed to unwind this weekend, so I developed a new jQuery plugin / stylesheet that creates emoticons on any webpage in pure CSS (using a bunch of CSS3 properties). The benefits of this approach are described in the post here.

On a side note, I emailed Faruk Ateş (who wrote this post entitled "Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop" [1]) to see what he thought, and he said it was a pretty solid implementation.

One of the things that Faruk (and skatey on IRC) brought up is that one of the age-old annoyances with inline emoticon replacement in bodies of text (prevalent in forums) is that they break the line-height of the text. I had to make the choice for this plugin to either keep the text the right size (and thus the emoticon a little larger than line-height), or make the actual text smaller so that the emoticon is exactly line-height. I chose the former, but upon further reflection, I'll probably change to the latter in the next release.

[1] http://farukat.es/journal/2010/08/469-pure-css-icons-make-madness-stop

EDIT: BTW, here is a direct link to the live demo: http://www.alfajango.com/blog/jquery-css-emoticons-plugin/jquery-css-emoticons-demo/

Yeah, it's all just a few bad apples, there's no underlying problem. Just like all the other women with appalling experiences of sexism in the tech community.

Seriously, if you can't see a fundamental problem, I seriously doubt you're looking very hard.

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cerian-jenkins/the-tech-industry-is-one-_b_1932440.html
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk
http://bitquabit.com/post/seriously/
http://farukat.es/journal/2012/10/669-kathy-sierra-primer-sexism-discussion