OSX Snow Leopard: Fail. Junk display in Safari & Chrome, Hex boxen on Firefox. Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker.
A "If you don't see the emoji, then download these fonts" right up-front would have been immensely helpful.
> Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker.
I get the exact same result on iOS5[0], so apparently the story just has no relation to the emoji. And the characters are not super clear at default font sizes
There's a broken [NEW] emoji lower down the page though, displays as a hexbox.
[0] confirmed by UnicodeChecker, the characters are {FATHER CHRISTMAS} {ROCKET} {TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS} {FISH} {SLICE OF PIZZA} {LOVE HOTEL} {MOVIE CAMERA} {HEADPHONE} {WATERMELON} {BICYCLE} {ROOSTER} {SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY}
Those of us who haven't upgraded, for whatever reason, can just push a rope, eh? Display is linked to the Unicode renderer and available fonts. Either Camino did some sort of net-fetch magic for the characters it didn't have fonts for or my regular browsers are slightly broken and don't realize that they actually have the right font available.
A "If you don't see the emoji, then download these fonts" right up-front would have been immensely helpful.