I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think this is a terrible idea, mostly because I struggle to read these little pictograms. Even when I do recognise that something's a firework rather than an explosion, I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I rely on the surrounding text to infer meaning by context. And at that point, why don't I just read the text; reading the text is orders of magnitude faster for me.
I'd hate to have to programatically search for something by whether it had a picture of an otter or a cat.
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I think this is a terrible idea, mostly because I struggle to read these little pictograms. Even when I do recognise that something's a firework rather than an explosion, I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I rely on the surrounding text to infer meaning by context. And at that point, why don't I just read the text; reading the text is orders of magnitude faster for me.
I'd hate to have to programatically search for something by whether it had a picture of an otter or a cat.