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MSIE To Adopt Firefox Feed Icon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the icons-are-power dept.

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.' "

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  1. Standardisation is nice but... by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... I'd prefer it if they went with Safari's blue rectangle with "RSS" written in white on it.

    The "cone of spherically propagating waves" design is so overused (and mostly associated with wireless networking) and has nothing to do with RSS feeds to me.

    Maybe MS got tired of copying Apple and decided to Think Different for once ;-)

    1. Re:Standardisation is nice but... by mopslik · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'd prefer it if they went with Safari's blue rectangle with "RSS" written in white on it.

      I prefer non-written icons, simply because there are no issues when translating into other (non-English) languages.

      Granted, most people will probably end up calling it "RSS" anyway, even if they don't understand what "Really Simple Syndication" means.

    2. Re:Standardisation is nice but... by Bogtha · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ... I'd prefer it if they went with Safari's blue rectangle with "RSS" written in white on it.

      Copied from my comment in the previous story:

      Why not work with Apple on this and use the one Safari implements?

      Because Apple, instead of using a generic, fairly understandable term like "news feed", chose to jump on the buzzword bandwagon and rebrand Safari as "Safari RSS". Consequently, they have a user-unfriendly acronym instead of a proper icon, which they display even when the news feed isn't RSS at all. That's not suitable for a user-friendly, generic news feed interface, especially when the IETF standard Atom format is displacing the legacy RSS format.

      It might have been okay to use "RSS" in a user interface when early adopters were the only people using it, and when RSS was the only format around, but now news feed support is entering the mainstream, and Atom is around too. Using "RSS" buttons isn't appropriate any more.

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  2. Come to think of it... by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I wonder how Apple is going to handle this, considering the airport icon is an orange "cone of sperically propagating waves. For them, adopting ths new standard would probably force them to change that as well. I also prefer the blue and white text rectangle.


    Wait, what are we talking about again? WHY does there need to be a standard RSS feed icon anyway? =p

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