Emoji rendered in Chrome have different widths than in other browsers

I had the same issue, and found out that it happened on non-retina screens only. To fix it, we applied a margin through a media-query like this: <span class=”friends”><span class=”emoji”>👥</span> Friends</span> <style> @media not screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), not screen and (min-resolution: 192dpi) { span.emoji { margin-right: 5px; } } </style> This is a pretty … Read more

How do browsers read and interpret CSS?

CSS rendering is an interesting topic and all the competitors are thriving hard to speed up the view layer (HTML and CSS) rendering to deliver the best results to the end users at a blink of an eye. Firstly, yes different browsers have their own CSS parser/Rendering engines Google Chrome, Opera (from version 15) – … Read more

How do you determine if WPF is using Hardware or Software Rendering?

Check RenderCapability.Tier Graphics Rendering Tiers RenderCapability Class [UPDATE] RenderCapability.IsPixelShaderVersionSupported – Gets a value that indicates whether the specified pixel shader version is supported. RenderCapability.IsShaderEffectSoftwareRenderingSupported – Gets a value that indicates whether the system can render bitmap effects in software. RenderCapability.Tier – Gets a value that indicates the rendering tier for the current thread. RenderCapability.TierChanged – … Read more