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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.' "
They look identical to mind control waves to me.
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WOW- that's embarrassing...
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.
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
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.)
In typical Microsoft style, they'll probably change a few pixels making their version of the logo completely incompatible with the industry standard logo.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
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...
Well damn.
I'd like to see dupe control on slashdot.
Where's mod "+1, Redundant" when you need it? :)
I spent the evening flickering into your darkness.