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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...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/165523 4&tid=154&tid=113&tid=95
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.
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.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.