Rolling Unicode dice in JavaScript, a demonstration

You need a font containing Unicode dice characters to see this demonstration as intended. One such font is Code2000. It has been designed to work with font smoothing (anti-aliasing) and may look ugly without it.

The demo

View the source code of this page to see how the demo has been implemented. The JavaScript code is directly embedded into the HTML document.

References

This just in, a message in the public Unicode mailing list; note that the dice characters in the message are not displayed properly on Internet Explorer even if your system has a font that contains them
rolling unicode dice in javascript, an identi.ca microblog entry
Unicode Character 'DIE FACE-1' (U+2680) (description at fileformat.info)