Internet Explorer 7's RSS Icon

After a long consideration, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Team finally settled on....



That's right. It is the Mozilla Firefox's RSS icon.

From the post:

This seemed like a very good idea, so in November, Amar and I took a visit down to Silicon Valley to meet with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla to get their thoughts on it. We all agreed that it’s in the user’s best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser.

I’m excited to announce that we’re adopting the icon used in Firefox. John and Chris were very enthusiastic about allowing us (and anyone in the community) to use their icon. This isn’t the first time that we’ve worked with the Mozilla team to exchange ideas and encourage consistency between browsers, and we’re sure it won’t be the last.

I am very happy to see collaboration between Internet Explorer developers and Mozilla Firefox developers. It will surely benefit the internet users greatly by creating and establishing standard among most (if not all) internet browsers.

I know it is just a tiny RSS icon, not a major achievement between IE Team and Mozilla. However all achievements start with small steps.