{"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":"<p>If the Mozilla has one cross-browser innovation fully licensed and acknowledged across the world, it&#8217;s their feed icon. The now infamous feed icon even has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedicons.com\/\" rel=\"follow\">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<p>But is it about to change? Just today, the Mozilla Foundation released (on it&#8217;s official wiki) <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/FX2_Visual_Update\/Default_Theme_Update\" rel=\"follow\">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<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The standard icon isn&rsquo;t necessarily the best or most aesthetically pleasing design (it&rsquo;s not), but it <em>is<\/em> a standard by choice of the people and the developers &ndash; and as such it&rsquo;s there for a reason. <\/p>\n<p>The original Mozilla feed icon:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"colorbox-218\"  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"standard feed icon\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/standard_feed_icon.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &lsquo;new&rsquo; design: <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"colorbox-218\"  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"new feed icon\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImageCache\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/2\/22\/Fx2-new-theme-concept-rss-hover.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not a mistake. Just two lines below it, the Mozilla team posts art generated with the <em>real<\/em> icon:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"colorbox-218\"  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the real feed icon in use\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImageCache\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/3\/35\/Fx2-new-theme-concept-glows.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the &lsquo;new&rsquo; feed icon is actually any good is definitely up for debate, but that&rsquo;s not the question. The icon has become a standard, the (more or less) official symbol for feeds and syndication &ndash; 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":"<p>If the Mozilla has one cross-browser innovation fully licensed and acknowledged across the world, it&#8217;s their feed icon. The now infamous feed icon even has websites dedicated to it, and has successfully been adopted by Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/inventors-of-feed-icon-scrap-design-start-anew\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,70],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-rss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}