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Aye or Nay? `<input type=emoji>` to trigger the native emoji-picker, allowing you to pick a single emoji.

<emojipicker> or riot...

No new input types!

Also it would fallback to a text input in unsupporting browsers which is quite different to what is desired imo. Tbh I think a window.showEmojiPicker() is probably a good first step anyway. Give people a JS way to invoke it and use the selected character somehow?

We often want to insert the chosen emoji into a textarea or something, so the picker itself being an input feels wrong regardless. <button emojipicker> is perhaps a better design for progressive enhancement?

It's kind of a customizable select, yeah?

I would object. A select holds a value. The emoji picker won't. It's an input source like a virtual keyboard.

Yeah it's more akin to a menu or perhaps a datalist?

A datalist attached to the text field you're currently writing in. And as a user, you want the emoji picker to be where your caret is. Emoji buttons exist due to technical limitations, imho, not because they're the best approach UX-wise.

Aren't all platforms already having built-in ways to enter emojis into text fields?

Not sure about Linux, but macOS and Windows have. But I guess ~80% of the users don't know how to open the dialog.