Microsoft teams up with Mozilla

[outrunner]

"Dealings with the devil"

By Nick Farrell: Friday 16 December 2005, 07:55

THE MOZILLA Foundation and Microsoft have decided on a common icon between their two browsers.

According to the Vole Bogs, here, Volish servitors met with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla and agreed to use the Firefox RSS Feed icon in IE too.

The blog says that Microsoft will be using the icon in the IE7 command bar whenever a page has a feed associated with it, and it will appear in other places in the browser whenever we need a visual to represent RSS and feeds.

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

IE7 will get a public pre-release build next year.

Here's the link

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28391

 

[FarFarAway]

Can't be a bad thing IMO.

They SHOULD talk to each other to get a better web standard for all sorts of stuff (and the FF dev team could certainly do with making Adblock better )

 

[rrkingb]

Can't be a bad thing IMO.

They SHOULD talk to each other to get a better web standard for all sorts of stuff (and the FF dev team could certainly do with making Adblock better )

It is not a good thing either. We need competion and options because nothing is going to be the best if without both of these.

 

[FarFarAway]

Yes but they're only teaming up to make a standard icon for RSS feeds :crazy:

 

[JN]

Who actually came up with the RSS standard? It would make more sense if they came up with a standard icon for RSS, and all browsers/applications that read RSS have to use the icon they define.

 

[FarFarAway]

Thats what they're doing innit??

 

[Broadback]

As I understand there is no common RSS, so which version is this logo going to represent? :crazy:

 

[planetgong]

Definitely need the competition. Microsoft would just churn out the same old cr*p without it!

 

[Eguy]

IE7 = FF - security

 

[rrkingb]

Please focus on the principles rather than details. Cooperate on one subjuect today might lead/ at least influence a lot in the future. That worries me.

 

[FarFarAway]

What IE gradually being coded closer to the web standard that FF runs permanently? I think thats a good thing :eh:

 

[danny2005]

They could work closer to an extent, but Firefox is pretty good without Microsoft getting there hands on it.

 

[FragTek]

I don't mind the collaboration as long as MS doesn't corrupt Mozilla in the process, lol. MS has a way of doing that to other companies.

 

[chudley]

They should talk but like a few have already said , competition is good and microsoft have a big enough monopoly as it is.