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MSIE To Adopt Firefox Feed Icon
An anonymous reader writes " Forbes article is reporting that Microsoft 'forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser will adopt Firefox's RSS feed icon, the company announced on a blog--effectively making the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard.' "
WOW- that's embarrassing...
This is one of those articles that should be deleted real quick
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/165523 4&tid=154&tid=113&tid=95
I'm pretty sure that graphics are not part of the code, and therefore aren't covered by the GPL. Most of the time, icons in free software are covered by the Creative Commons License, and therefore, I think, Microsoft would have no legal problems using them, and not releasing their source code.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
The RSS standard is meant to be extendable, the creators realised it wouldnt cover all circumstances and situations. Get over it.
Linky.
Read the article.
Representatives of giant Microsoft's Redmond, Wash.-based IE7 team even took a trip down to tiny Mozilla's Mountain View, Calif. offices to work out a deal.
Presumably, they got permission.
Of course, this was duped on Digg too. But their story rating system took it off the front page quickly.
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Firefox had a white-on-orange RSS icon (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/rss-old.png ) but it got changed for being too geeky, too big, and looking like it said "ASS". I agree that it's a stupid icon, but could be better for the average windows user who knows what a "web feed" is.
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Copy and paste https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2613
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It's worth noting that Apple has also extended RSS using exactly the method listed in that link. They added several new iTunes-specific elements for use with podcasts that are used through iTunes.
Because they followed that extension mechanism, the RSS feeds that take advantage of those extra fields are also standard RSS feeds, so any other reader can read them with no problem.
From what I can tell, the Microsoft extensions are essentially the same. The RSS feed remains a standard RSS feed, it just has extra extended information contained within it - although I could be wrong.
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