On 14th December, Microsoft announced it would use the same symbol for RSS as Mozilla. The symbol you’ll probably know too well: 
. This symbol will represent RSS in Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Outlook 12. This is to make people more familiar with RSS. Mozilla and Microsoft are looking for more consistency between their browsers.
Following this example, I’ve added two buttons on my blog, which are in half-banners on the homepage. The reason I’ve added these symbols is so that people are more familiar with feeds. One is orange, and this is for RSS, and one is blue, for Atom. These are pretty clearly labeled and take you to the correct feed. I created the blue button as I decided not to just use the orange button, as everyone deserves the choice to choose what they wish to use. These buttons/banners are CCL so feel free to take them, as long as you follow my license.
Hopefully, this will happen in more blogs soon.
Also, one more Merry Christmas!
Hmm. it still drives me nuts that MS IE doesn’t render my blog properly but that Safari, Mozilla, Firefox and Flock do.
Season’s greetings!
rashbre
Good God - the last thing we Firefox users want in this world is more consistency between MS and Mozilla. This seems to be an idea for the masses of dummies here in America…where it is our national mission to dumb down society. Let’s make EVERYTHING easy for the igornant ass Americans who can’t figure out what the function keys do. I digress. I suppose following the example isn’t such a bad thing since it’s already in the works. If you could figure out how to get MS to use tabbed browsing…well, that’d be another story.
Ciao, Stacy
You know, what Microsoft should REALLY do is start tabbed browsing. I use Firefox at home and I have to use IE at work, and I often find myself unconsciously hitting “control T” over and over. And I wonder why it’s not working. >__You know, what Microsoft should REALLY do is start tabbed browsing. I use Firefox at home and I have to use IE at work, and I often find myself unconsciously hitting “control T” over and over. And I wonder why it’s not working. >__
IE7 will have tabs, and also, as I said here: http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2005/06/ie6_gets_tabs.html