IE And Mozz Collaborate On RSS Icon

sylverboss writes "The Microsoft Team RSS blog is reporting that IE7 is adopting the RSS icon used in Firefox. They all agreed that it's in the user's best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser. The increasing collaborative efforts between the browser vendors in the last few weeks is an honest attempt to create a standard Web interface for everyone, no matter what browser is used."

Comments

Good

[eneville]

I hope MS adopt other features. IE will only get better through competing with a stronger player.

Re:Good

[labratuk]

Collaberating on a 32x32 (if that) bitmap? Call me a cynic, but I don't give a flying fudge.

Come on. It's a 32bit RGBA image, 32 by 32 pixels. That means it could have been (2^32)*32*32 - 1 = 4,398,046,511,103 other things. But they chose that one. That has to mean something.

And here I thought

[spurtle15]

that competition between standards were good.

Re:I propose...

[rmsmith]

You're just jealous.

Great Scott the Inovation is Amazing!!

[OneByteOff]

In other News, IE 7 will utilize Mozilla's Tabber Browsing, Improved Pop-up Blocker and security model... ... In-house inovation from microsoft includes... um.... um.... An improved looking Blue E. More details to follow.

Re:Great Scott the Inovation is Amazing!!

[JPyObjC Dude]

... We at MS also would like to introduce the blue screen of happiness! Yes, you can enjoy pictures of flowers comfortable music while you muse on the hours of work you just lost.

In other news. . .

[smooth wombat]

sales of down-filled parkas skyrocketed in hell, Israel and Palestine agreed to merge and form one country under UN supervision and evangelical christians in the United States, along with the Vatican, admitted that Christmas should more properly be celebrated sometime in the summer.

What about innovation?

[pivo]

I'm worried that conformity in this issue area will reduce competition and stifle innovation.

Re:Collaboration?

[Lisandro]

Come on, it's a damn icon! 28x28 pixels, thats it. Don't too read much into it.

Yay! :)

[Spy der Mann]

Now could the office teams please agree on a file format?
Pretty please?
Pretty please with sugar on top?

I've got it!

[jmcmunn]

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|RSS|
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There you go, mock that baby up in photoshop and we're good to go!

They took a trip to talk about an icon?

[MasterC]

...so in November, Amar and I took a visit down to Silicon Valley...

A trip....from Washington...to California...for an icon? I wish I could make trips around the country for such trivial purposes.

How about this instead?

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From: jane@microsoft.com
To: john@mozilla.org
Subject: RSS icon

You: RSS icon.
We: Need RSS icon.

We coo?

-Jane

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From: john@mozilla.org
To: jane@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: RSS icon

Sure.

-John

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Honestly, 800+ miles to talk about a 28x28 pixel icon. God save their accounting department if they want to collaborate on something like those darn pesky standards.

Re:Helpful hint:

[drew]

Yeah, I can see it now. Over time they'll add bits of red and yellow shading to the orange icon. They'll change the level of anti-aliasing a little bit, and maybe slightly adjust the radius of the rounded corners. After a year or two, they'll add drop shadows, and before you know it, no one will regognize the original orange and white icon used in Firefox and Opera and all of the other browsers that agreed to follow Microsoft into this standard. Everyone will be locked into the new and improved Microsoft version.

Meanwhile, Dave Winer will be somewhere saying "See, I told you that you should have just used an orange rectangle with the letters 'XML'. But would you listen to me? NO! And now Microsoft has gone and emrace-and-extended your precious litle radio icon. I hope you're happy!"

It's 1997 all over again..

[StikyPad]

When pressed, IE developers admitted that this might not end with RSS icons. "We just have trouble coming up with any ideas of our own period," they were quoted as saying. "Yesterday it was tabbed browsing, today it's an RSS icon.. who knows, maybe one day we'll implement stability."