Several months ago I received an email from the IE team's Amar Gandhi (we'd previously bumped into each other at Gnomedex and had some good browser discussions.) Amar wanted to talk about how browsers presented the user with information about web feeds (RSS and friends) and what could be done to improve consistency in this area. That sounded like a great idea so we set up a meeting.
Amar and Jane, both program managers, came down to Mountain View to talk about the Firefox feed icon and shortly afterwards they announced that they'd be adopting our icon in IE 7. I think this was a great move to bring some consistency to web feed discovery and presentation and will certainly help our Firefox efforts to un-geekify technology so that it's more acceptable to mainstream users.
Today I read over at Opera Watch that Opera is falling into line behind IE and adopting the Firefox icon too. Good for them.
