Comments on: “The Orange XML Icon” http://bura-bura.com/blog/archives/2004/05/26/the-orange-xml-icon/ "bura bura" - wandering (Japanese) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jeremy Higgs http://bura-bura.com/blog/archives/2004/05/26/the-orange-xml-icon/#comment-21 Jeremy Higgs Wed, 26 May 2004 22:59:26 +0000 http://www.higgs-family.net/~jeremy/archives/2004/05/26/the-orange-xml-icon/#comment-21 Ahhh yeah, that's a good point. There should be one, standard button that is used to subscribe to a news feed, that autodiscovers, etc, etc. I'm pretty sure the OmniWeb 'subscribe' button will only work with the inbuilt newsreader, which is a bit of a shame. Maybe it's up to the Mozilla folks to add that sort of functionality (and cascade it down to Firefox, Camino, etc). That's only a small percentage of the browser market, though. There's still IE. :) Ahhh yeah, that’s a good point. There should be one, standard button that is used to subscribe to a news feed, that autodiscovers, etc, etc.

I’m pretty sure the OmniWeb ’subscribe’ button will only work with the inbuilt newsreader, which is a bit of a shame. Maybe it’s up to the Mozilla folks to add that sort of functionality (and cascade it down to Firefox, Camino, etc). That’s only a small percentage of the browser market, though. There’s still IE. :)

]]> By: Joshua Allen http://bura-bura.com/blog/archives/2004/05/26/the-orange-xml-icon/#comment-20 Joshua Allen Wed, 26 May 2004 14:32:58 +0000 http://www.higgs-family.net/~jeremy/archives/2004/05/26/the-orange-xml-icon/#comment-20 Very cool! I believe Opera now has functionality like this in the latest release too. If using IE, newsgator installs a similar toolbar button in IE, which performs autodiscovery and just picks the best version of the feed for you. Desktop sidebar also installs one, so if you have both newsreaders installed, you have *two* toolbar buttons! :-) But part of the point I am trying to get across is that it should be more like printing. Regardless of whether I have installed HP printer or Canon printer, I print the same. I don't have different print buttons that work only with particular printers. I suspect that OmniWeb subscribe button works only with the OmniWeb reader. And opera works only with opera RSS reader, and so on. Very cool! I believe Opera now has functionality like this in the latest release too. If using IE, newsgator installs a similar toolbar button in IE, which performs autodiscovery and just picks the best version of the feed for you. Desktop sidebar also installs one, so if you have both newsreaders installed, you have *two* toolbar buttons! :-)

But part of the point I am trying to get across is that it should be more like printing. Regardless of whether I have installed HP printer or Canon printer, I print the same. I don’t have different print buttons that work only with particular printers. I suspect that OmniWeb subscribe button works only with the OmniWeb reader. And opera works only with opera RSS reader, and so on.

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