Friday, February 17, 2006 5:00 AM
Okay, it really isn't that exciting. But, I thought it worth mentioning that you will start to see more and more of this new little icon:
You might ask why, and the short answer is because
Microsoft is behind it (well, at least partially). The slightly longer answer is that Microsoft developers and
Firefox developers starting looking for a standardized replacement to the wide variety of RSS, XML, Atom and RDF icons that are being used across the web. Believe it or not, the two groups apparently worked together on this issue and after looking at a number of possibilities, they chose the symbol noted above. And, from all accounts, the next version of Outlook will also be using this symbol (in the future, you may well find yourself reading feeds from Outlook).
So, that is that. If you want to read more, you can check this link to a site I occasionally update with stuff just like this.