What?! Microsoft Internet Explorer playing nice with the other kids in the playground? I came across this official Microsoft blog from the designers of IE and was aghast to read things like “we met with the makers of Mozilla”… Well, it appears to be true. As I get my breath back, the important thing about this is that there looks to be a standard icon for RSS features on the websites that will be part of the next generation of IE (version 7).
Icons: It’s still orange
My last post shared some of our conceptual designs of the feed icon and expressed some of the criteria that we are using to select the right icon. Several of the comments liked icon #4 simply because it looked liked the Firefox icon, and many (like this one) suggested that we work with the Firefox team to standardize on an icon.
This seemed like a very good idea, so in November, Amar and I took a visit down to Silicon Valley to meet with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla to get their thoughts on it. We all agreed that it’s in the user’s best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser. And the winner is…
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