Redefining Feed Icons
There’s a bit of a movement about these days to make RSS/Atom/Whatever data feeds more accessible to people. In the past, the closest thing we had to a standard were those really ugly orange “XML” graphics. Lots of people used them because they were a semi-standard, but most people would also agree that they’re not very attractive.
Last week, Microsoft announced that they had agreed to use the icon from Firefox for their feed syndication icon. This is the beginning of a de facto emergent standard. That’s what prompted the creation of Feed Icons—a site designed to promote and make the new icon “standard” easy to use. So, if you have a site where you advertise a feed (RSS, Atom, something else) then go ahead and switch over to using this new icon.
(My own site is [still] in the midst of a revamp/redesign offline. Rest assured that the new version will include this new icon whenever I finish it. No, I don’t know when that will be.)
Posted Monday December 26, 2005 in Web Development by Chris Curtis
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