First of all I thought it was a joke, second when I went to the site to take a look they had 5 images on the site that they want comment on. My comment was simple leave well enough alone and quit trying to re-invent the wheel. I bet I know what the conversation was. Hey let’s piss Dave Winer off and have the graphics department design a new icon for RSS feeds so we can introduce it and confuse consumers of online information even more.
Someone needs to smack someone in the head over their. Stop now please. [blogs.msdn.com]
Maybe I read that wrong. It looks like the are just wanting an Icon for IE 7. They don’t want people to change the rss feed icon on their websites, they want an Icon on the IE tool bar that will represent RSS Feeds. That would be a good thing as I don’t think IE has a button that will show a sites rss feed now.
I think the icons they’re talking about are their own toolbar/status bar icons not the ones on web pages. This is a quote from that page: “We are in the process of figuring out what icon to use on our toolbar in IE7 to represent feeds”
Thank you! I thought it was just me. Doesn’t Microsoft have anything better to do?
I agree, with you both. Just leave well enough alone, even though I never did like orange
General Question: Are we gonna see many double posts about the same issue?
http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/005015.html
It may become common for us to see duplicates as this happens even on site like Slashdot. I often see the same subject covered by 2 or more authors over at Cnet also. It happens with multiple editors, although perhaps it would be better if instead of covering the same topics in different posts; use of the comments system might be better. It might cut down on some of the duplicate stories posted.
On topic, I also think that if M$ is going to incorporate an icon for feeds, they should use one of the icons that’s pretty much standard. Their arguement is that people don’t know what it means. I say, why not teach them? Give them a “What’s this?” when they mouseover.