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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.' "
I'd like to see dupe control on Slashdot..
They look identical to mind control waves to me.
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WOW- that's embarrassing...
I really like seeing Microsoft conforming to a standard instead of attempting to create one. It may just be an icon, but it's something!
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
Only with Microsoft is it the icon that becomes the standard and not the technology. It's funny because now this "standard" will represent both Mozilla's normal RSS and Microsoft's embraced and extended RSS.
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4 trolls a trollin' 3 goatse links 2 mods asleep, and a dupe from only 4 days ago...
Ok, time for the mods to drink from the kiddy egg nog. Lay off the stiff stuff.
I had thought this was not a dupe, and in fact my time machine had worked =\... Back to the drawing board!
this is some real interesting news. stuff that matters.
... 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
Is there a dupe icon in FF for slashdot to adopt?
In typical Microsoft style, they'll probably change a few pixels making their version of the logo completely incompatible with the industry standard logo.
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Didn't realize that, regarding power. Interesting!
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All my newer laptops have BT built in, but I tend to customize and sell them too quickly. The older lease-outs I've picked up work fine, even if they're outdated. What I'd really like (but can't justify) would be a BT/WiFi/GPRS/EDGE PC Card for complete wireless connectivity. Maybe through in CDPD for old times sake.
Wait, what are we talking about again? WHY does there need to be a standard RSS feed icon anyway? =p
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Who says this is suddenly an industry standard? Firefox and IE will use it ad they have a corner on the market, but has any standards organization said "this shall be the RSS icon?" It's a pretty big leap from Microsoft adopting something to it becoming a standard, despite their dominance of the browser market. And in case anyone has forgotten, MS tends to make hash out of standards it does adopt.
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Slashdot to adopt all previous stories.
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It's great they didn't feel the need to DUPElicate efforts!
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
Now, back in the day, they ran this site as a standard tech blog, not really making any money off it. Just a side hobby. However, when it got purchased, and the popularity really flew off, the Slashdot team discovered they didn't actually need to work anymore.
Now personally, if I'd discovered that what was a fun hobby now fed and clothed me, and there was practically no work involved, would I spend as long as possible on it, carefully checking each thing?
Of course not, that would invalidate the whole point. Instead, I'd look through the titles and occasionally the summaries of submitted stories, and let through whichever ones sounded vaguely interesting. Then I'd spend all my free time and money pissing around, and relaxing.
I don't hold it against them, Slashdot still works, we still get good comments, and damn, I'd do exactly the same thing.
Kudos to you, Taco and the rest of the gang! Live the dream! I know I would...
If only there was a technology that the editors could use that would show them a list of current Slashdot stories prior to posting... A real-time feed of some sort would be nice.
I mainly use Safari.
There isa blue icon with white letters RSS on it in the URL component (at the right edge).
I can't get why everything needs to be an icon?
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Of course, this was duped on Digg too. But their story rating system took it off the front page quickly.
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I think they misspelled assimilate
Well, there's a difference between someting being a de jure standard (a standards body decides on a specification) and a de facto standard (something that is standard by the fact that (mostly) everyone does it that way). By MS adopting Mozilla's RSS icon, it gives it the weight of being a de facto standard.
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The Firefox team realise that a unified symbol is of benefit to everyone, and happily allowed MS to use the logo.
They'll find some way to make it evil, or claim ownership. It's in their genes.
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Representatives of giant Microsoft's Redmond, Wash.-based IE7 team took a vacation in California on the company dime, pretending to have intense negotiations over using part of a GPL'ed product
This is about as relevant as Firefox using CTRL-C, CTRL-V, and CTRL-X
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That's a good idea. Slashdot is full of techy people with nothing to do, and dupes mean we have nothing to talk about. If everyone decides that dupes are for computer help, we could make Slashdot useful!
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