> So let’s not use html either because someone can clutch pearls all day that some ancient browser on some EOL system might not support a specific new html tag.
Ancient? The submitted article is "New emojis in 2023-2024" about "the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September". Thus, no software even supports the new emoji yet, and ironically they have to use png images to show what the emoji will look like.
I'm done talking with you. This is getting too ridiculous. Moreover, your "pearl clutching" remarks are stepping over the line and violating the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or let’s not use images because support for image formats varies across devices. Wait till we get into accuracy of color reproduction or how different decoders result in different images.
Or we can just understand that every design decision has pros and cons that must be debated, and clutching pearls on the internet without knowing the actual constraints is a futile exercise.
The website designer may use a Unicode subset that has wide support across the demographics they’ve decided are important to them.