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IE And Mozz Collaborate On RSS Icon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the working-together-to-make-the-internet-better dept.

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."

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  1. Re:And here I thought by jasen666 · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Re:Good by NickFitz · · Score: 5, Informative

    call me when they cooperate on something functional

    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... :-)

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  3. Re:Good by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative
    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?
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