1474153 - Support easy emoji input like :+1: or :smile:

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Bug Creation/Editing, enhancement)

Description

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

On GitHub, Slack, or whatever, you can easily input emoji on the comment field as you type a colon (:). Bugzilla should also support this shortcut.

https://www.webpagefx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

GitHub's current emoji list is here: https://github.com/github/gemoji/blob/master/db/emoji.json

Comment 2

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

I need something small to work on.

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This is blocked by Bug 1476107 that I’m working on.

Comment 4

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] (Bugzilla UX) (FxSiteCompat) from comment #3)

This is blocked by Bug 1476107.

Does it really block that? I was going to add this to the markdown renderer because that's how github does it.

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This is a frontend enhancement. On GitHub or Slack, you’ll see a list of emoji when you type semicolon (:) and can input directly, not a server-side conversion. We should do the same.

Comment 6

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

It's both. Github appears to store the non-emoji form, so we can do the same. I'll also add an API for completing the emojis.

Comment 7

[:glob ✱]

In the time since this bug was created, operating systems have improved their native emoji keyboard support to a point where we no longer need to reimplment an emoji picker in BMO.