[Emoticons in SplitText]

For now, I'm only concerned with it working in Chrome. My lazy solution was to simply remove the skin-tone blocks from the string.

 

The skin-tone characters are definitely there, and have a purpose. They just fail to render correctly in some cases. I've seen it fail on twitter, but not every time. 

[Emoticons in SplitText]

It's a character for defining skin tone.

 

I've posted on SO, too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34421887/splitting-emoji-safely#34422128

[Emoticons in SplitText]

Here's a new pen with some invisible fleshy blocks 

 

See the Pen QyEOEG?editors=011 by positlabs (@positlabs) on CodePen

[Emoticons in SplitText]

I found a very long regex that might help. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex/blob/master/index.js

[Emoticons in SplitText]

Here's my fork

 

See the Pen XXKeJX by positlabs (@positlabs) on CodePen

[Emoticons in SplitText]

I'm trying to use SplitText with some text that contains emoticons. However, splitting an emoticon with an empty string will yield two garbage characters

 

" ??:".split("")

 

["�", "�"]

 

Here's an article that mentions the problem: 

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

 

I can hack a workaround, but is there any chance this will be supported in the future?

[Using TweenMax/GSAP with Gulp]

I'm guessing you should define TweenMax as a global var, so ESLint doesn't complain about it. 

 

"Any reference to an undeclared variable causes a warning, unless the variable is explicitly mentioned in a /*global ...*/ comment."

 

So you need to include this /*global TweenMax*/

 

http://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring.html