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By: blog @ nickwebb.net » Blog Archive » Standardised RSS Feed Icon

blog @ nickwebb.net » Blog Archive » Standardised RSS Feed Icon — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:49:39 +0000

[…] At the time this sparked a good debate on Sitepoint about the standardisation of icons, whether or not this was necessary, whether or not websites should adopt the same icon in place of the existing RSS and XML icons, and what impact the new icon might have on web design. […]

By: bong

bong — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:23:31 +0000

I’m not a fan of the orange, and I only use the orange ones because people are use to them.

http://feedicons.com/ here are the syndication icons in more colours

By: PetitOn » Standardize the RSS Feed Icon

PetitOn » Standardize the RSS Feed Icon — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:43:09 +0000

[…] Microsoft seems to have accepted the new icon as a standard for representing an RSS feed, and the discussion of a standardized symbol for syndication feeds is in full swing. Sitepoint in its ‘ RSS icon “standardized” ‘ argues that “With this icon currently in Firefox and set to appear in Internet Explorer 7 next year, it will quickly become the standard user experience for feeds on the Web. Web designers would be well advised to begin using it …” […]

By: craiga

craiga — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:11:00 +0000

Matt Brett has made these icons available in Photoshop and Illustrator formats over at http://www.mattbrett.com/archives/2005/12/the-new-standard-feed-icon/

By: planetOzh

planetOzh — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:52:06 +0000

One Standardized RSS Icon To Rule Them All

Microsoft adopts Mozilla’s standard

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By: Complete Stranger

Complete Stranger — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:48:02 +0000

“Web designers would be well advised to begin using it instead of the familiar-but-problematic RSS and XML icons. “

Unlike the Web designers on Sitepoint which still stick to them ;-)

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:53:32 +0000

As a user of IE7b1, I can shed some light here …

Poncho, MS intend to call them “Web Feeds” to remove the techno speak from the name.

To my knowledge the icon is only located on the browser next to the “Web Feeds” folder (listed as part of your “Favorites” menu) and on the toolbar. There is nothing anywhere that suggests that this become the standard icon for use on web pages for feeds, but it does make sense that if two major browsers are using this icon, that web sites use the same icons on their pages to provide consistency for non-tech savy users.

Also, because IE7 auto detects the presense of feeds on the page you are currently viewing, the icon in the toolbar activates/deactivate in response to what it finds. For example, if I go to this site, it highlights, then I push it, and I get the main Sitepoint feed displayed in a nice readable format.

Now if only I could view several feeds at once in an aggregate/newspaper style, I would be very happy. Otherwise, it isn’t really that big a deal.

Just be prepared because Vista will call them Web Feeds as well, which means, its going to get harder to push the RSS/XML/ATOM icons because of the disassociation.

By: csi95

csi95 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:40:04 +0000

a) I think it’s great that Microsoft went along with what Mozilla already uses, rather than using something different “just because”.

b) I think it’s funny that the original post ends with “Web designers would be well advised to begin using it instead of the familiar-but-problematic RSS icon and XML icon icons”, yet the top of the post has an RSS icon on it!

By: yappaBlog » Blog archief » RSS icon wordt symbool

yappaBlog » Blog archief » RSS icon wordt symbool — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:53:43 +0000

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By: Elegance and Efficacy

Elegance and Efficacy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:47:10 +0000

Web Feed Icon Standardized

In what should prove a very wise move for XML web feed (RSS and Atom) adoption, Microsoft announced that they have agreed to use the same icon as Firefox to represent feeds in their upcoming IE 7.

A snippet from the announcement posted by the Micro…