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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."
How is that a double standard? They didn't patch it to break the DRM, they patched it because it broke their OS.
Wow people. Stop referring to Tabbed Browsing as Mozilla's/Opera's innovation. Neither one of these innovated it. In fact, I find both of their implementaions to be lacking. I've been using NetCaptor for the past eight years, with tabbed browser. No browser to date still supports tabbed browsing as well as it does. I constantly get new windows for FF open when I selected single application. I've tried numerious plugins. They all miss one or two different areas, and most of them don't play nice with each other. BTW, NetCaptor also had a popup blocker (that worked) and URL blocking (Ad Blocking) long before FF was publically released. It also blocked most of the exploits in IE that MS left open for months. Yeah, so it's not free to get rid of the small ads that appear occasionally, but it was money well spent in my eyes.
What sort of thing? Stuff like
Microsoft have been justly lambasted over the past few years for their failure to keep IE up to date, but (perhaps prompted by the success of Firefox) they are now doing real work to improve matters, and this has been accompanied by an unprecendented degree of openness and clarity. Time will tell just how much they achieve on their promises, but it's clearly wrong to suggest that this rather trivial piece of news is all that's been happening over the past year.
If you're really interested in functional improvements made by Microsoft then rather than waiting for us to call you, you could try subscribing to a few feeds. Here's one to get you started: IEBlog (Atom 0.3).
(Oh no, I defended Microsoft; there goes 8 years of karma... :-)
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
- They use RSS for Atom feeds as well, so it's not even accurate if you are using the IETF standard feed format.
- The average user has no more idea what RSS is than they do HTML (probably less). It's just another acronym.
The Mozilla icon isn't great, but it's relatively good and if it becomes a standard then it will help users. Does anyone else remember when Apple had all of the best UI designers?I am TheRaven on Soylent News
If IE needs an RSS icon, that means that they're implementing some form of RSS feature. Possibly as a sidebar or maybe just Live Bookmarks, Firefox style. (The article isn't very clear on where they're using it.)
So, in a sense, this means Microsoft is implementing a web standard: RSS.
Which, arguably, is a feature that matters. The current version of IE has absolutely no RSS support.
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So how is it that, despite the Opera, MSIE, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla icons all looking completely different, people still manage to get onto the web?
simple: those who would be confused have never heard of Opera, Netscape, Firefox or Mozilla, and think "MSIE" is named "The Internet."