{"id":218,"date":"2006-07-12T20:56:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/218"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:10:14","slug":"inventors-of-feed-icon-scrap-design-start-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/inventors-of-feed-icon-scrap-design-start-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventors of Feed Icon Scrap Design, Start Anew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the Mozilla has one cross-browser innovation fully licensed and acknowledged across the world, it’s their feed icon. The now infamous feed icon even has websites dedicated to it<\/a>, and has successfully been adopted by Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and the much of the rest of the browser herd. <\/p>\n

But is it about to change? Just today, the Mozilla Foundation released (on it’s official wiki) concept art<\/a> for the new Firefox 2.0 theme, and something caught our eye. Is it possible that along with the new UI for tabs, buttons, and boxes, Firefox will ship with a brand-spanking-new RSS icon? It sure seems that way! <\/p>\n

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The standard icon isn’t necessarily the best or most aesthetically pleasing design (it’s not), but it is<\/em> a standard by choice of the people and the developers – and as such it’s there for a reason. <\/p>\n

The original Mozilla feed icon:<\/p>\n

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The ‘new’ design: <\/p>\n

\"new<\/p>\n

It’s not a mistake. Just two lines below it, the Mozilla team posts art generated with the real<\/em> icon:<\/p>\n

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Whether or not the ‘new’ feed icon is actually any good is definitely up for debate, but that’s not the question. The icon has become a standard, the (more or less) official symbol for feeds and syndication – and after the hard work and effort the Mozilla Foundation put into publicizing the icon and convincing other teams to pick it up, this is quite a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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