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]
Thank you! I thought it was just me. Doesn’t Microsoft have anything better to do?
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”
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.