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

Re:And here I thought

[jasen666]

How is that a double standard? They didn't patch it to break the DRM, they patched it because it broke their OS.

Re:Great Scott the Inovation is Amazing!!

[Techster]

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.

Re:Good

[NickFitz]

call me when they cooperate on something functional

What sort of thing? Stuff like

• Support for alpha channel transparency in PNG?
• Fixing their support for CSS 2?
• Improving support for HTTPS?
• Improvements in caching and decompression?
• Implementing developer tools?
• Improving the user interface for secure browsing?
• Collaborating with the Web Standards Project to improve Microsoft products?

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... :-)

Re:Good

[TheRaven64]

Apple use a blue box with the letters 'RSS' in it for RSS feeds. This is a bad idea because:

1. They use RSS for Atom feeds as well, so it's not even accurate if you are using the IETF standard feed format.
2. 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?