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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. Dupe it up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to see dupe control on Slashdot..

    1. Re:Dupe it up. by mkavanagh2 · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'd like to see dupe control on Slashdot..

      This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...


      Well damn.
    2. Re:Dupe it up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd like to see dupe control on slashdot.

    3. Re:Dupe it up. by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where's mod "+1, Redundant" when you need it? :)

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  2. Radio Waves?! by lawpoop · · Score: 5, Funny

    They look identical to mind control waves to me.

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  3. Crazy, Crazy Dupe... by broeken · · Score: 5, Informative

    WOW- that's embarrassing...

    1. Re:Crazy, Crazy Dupe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think I'll run an experiment. I'll submit a story to Slashdot and link to an identical story previously posted on Slashdot. The dupes will compond to make a MEGADUPE.

      Either that or Taco won't post anything for a week while trying to figure out if it's a dupe or not.

  4. Good News by Necrotica · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

    1. Re:Good News by ceejayoz · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  5. Fascinating new development! by Junky191 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/165523 4&tid=154&tid=113&tid=95

    1. Re:Fascinating new development! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not the same story. They came from different departments. (from the working-together-to-make-the-internet-better dept. vs from the icons-are-power dept.)

    2. Re:Fascinating new development! by stevesliva · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not enough can be said about this one icon.

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    3. Re:Fascinating new development! by glass_window · · Score: 4, Funny

      Should have been from the "It's-so-unbelievable-we-had-to-post-it-again dept."

  6. Heh by pHatidic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Heh by _xeno_ · · Score: 4, Informative

      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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  7. On the four day of Christmas... by JoeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    My true love gave to me:

    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.

  8. Grr... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had thought this was not a dupe, and in fact my time machine had worked =\... Back to the drawing board!

  9. wow by ekeyser · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is some real interesting news. stuff that matters.

  10. 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.

  11. Embrace & Extend by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Embrace & Extend by fyrie · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or worse, they will slowly change it pixel by pixel until one day it resembles a small goatse.

  12. 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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  13. Re:800 Lb Gorilla by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  14. In related news by alphakappa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot to adopt all previous stories.

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  15. Excellent by aengblom · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's great they didn't feel the need to DUPElicate efforts!

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  16. I think I've worked it out by FluffyWithTeeth · · Score: 5, Insightful
    People always complain about dupes on Slashdot, and I think I've deduced the reason.

    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...

    1. Re:I think I've worked it out by vortigern00 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, it's amazing how well that explains what happenned to metallica.

  17. Slashdot RSS Feed by brianerst · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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