Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Putting Icons on posts

They're "emoji" - these are images that are handled like text elements ("glyphs") by the operating system, rather than rendered individually by the browser software. Windows handles them differently to MacOS, which has subtle differences to iOS, which is different again to Android, and in turn to ChromeOS and the various flavours of Linux.

The Emoji character set is still being developed - the latest update to the iOS system, for example, included a whole slew of new ones that other operating systems don't render well, or in some cases don't render at all (leaving a black outlined rectangle instead). That's why they look different on different machines.

O.K. Chaps,
I was very happy with the icons but now I have to ask "What are giffs?" Are they Xmas presents from people with speech impediments?

"It is understandable that computer users who encounter this acronym for the first time might well assume that since the “G” stands for “graphic,” gif should similarly be pronounced with an initial hard g, as in go and give. However, the inventor of the format, Steve Wilhite, has insisted from its introduction at a computer conference in the late 1980s that the pronunciation is [jif] (Show IPA) with an initial soft g, as in gelatin and giant. That pronunciation is even part of the official specifications for the format and is the one used by many computer gurus, but both pronunciations are commonly in use."

Changing valves reminds me of my first computer a Ferranti Pegasus at London and Manchester Assurance where the valves used to work out due to the vibrations from the road - until we moved.

Perhaps your laptop needs greasing?