I found this mildly interesting: the "screenshots" in this article are made out of HTML elements.
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Raymond Chen does that all the time.
He got very inventive, even using unicode characters for the moon and stars icons. Do you know if he is building those from scratch or using some sort of tool to assist?
And using a Windows only font for the "moon and stars" dialog. At least the supposed moon comes up as a "missing character" in Firefox on Linux.
Unicode U+1F319 "crescent moon", it exists on OS X but it significantly different from the Windows version (yellow and orange shading vs solid white silhouette).
Since the visual appearance matters here more than being searchable by "", drawing the shape in CSS would be more consistent: http://aamirshahzad.net/moon-with-css3/
EDIT: Pretend there's a moon in those quotes. HN strips some Unicode characters, including that one.
The Symbola font[0] which is included in the Debian (and Ubuntu) package ttf-ancient-fonts[1] have that glyph and lots of other emojis--which is a very useful install if you want to see them in Linux. (So, I can see the crescent moon in Linux.)
[0] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ttf-ancient-fonts
it's in android
Holy crap, I didn't even realize that! Author fooled me. :)