Changing Standards for Web Feeds

The standard for web feed/RSS/XML icons are changing. Major tech companies (Microsoft, Mozilla, Firefox) have adopted new icons to indicate syndicated content. The old buttons looked something like this: . The new icons look like this: . I think this is a good step to help simplify web syndication and overcome the confusion of differing versions. Not know much about this web feed mumbo jumbo? Read here to learn more. Here is a site devoted to the change of icons where you can also download the new symbol.

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