Mac OS X Leopard Mail and RSS
I’m a little disappointed that Apple’s new version of Mail uses the old-style icon rather than the beautiful feed icons by Matt Brett.
The arguments for the new icon are a-plenty: 1. IE7 and Firefox both use this new icon already 2. Using “RSS” confuses the question of whether Atom, OPML, or future standards will be supported. 3. Using letters in an icon is usually a Bad Thing, Apple should know this more than anyone else. 4. The old icon looks ugly. 5. It’s freely available in vector format, absolutely no design time required. 6. No one will stop them from making it blue instead of orange.
Hopefully Apple will see the light before Leopard is released.