[georss] Icon

[Andrew Turner]

On 7/19/06, Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org> wrote:
> There was a flurry of this a while ago. I prefer leaving the RSS part
> alone and only adding, like Andrew's

I thought that there may have, but wanted to be creative last night,
so whipped up some ideas and hoped the better of the older ones would
show up - and they did. ;)

>
> I had made something like these. They were slightly larger so I just
> whittled them down to 16 pixels high. I think that the "RSS" part is
> assumed, because the orange icon means "feed" or "rss" already, so
> maybe the text should say "Geo". I also think if we can find a
> distinctive color, it can stand out better.
>

Good point, I like the disctinctive Green, and just the 'Geo' .
However, since there are GeoRSS: Simple, GML, W3C, and Atom of the
same (as I mentioned in a post awhile ago), then how would we want to
differentiate someone grab the Atom GeoRSS Simple? Maybe this is just
hidden to the user and their reader should hopefully handle it (again,
as someone said before), but wanted to ask with regards to the icon.

I ask this because I am styling up the GeoRSS.org blog and wanted to
put in some icons. :)

Andrew


>
>         Allan
>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 08:15, Andrew Turner wrote:
>
> > On 7/19/06, Josh at oklieb <josh at oklieb.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I appreciate your efforts. The problem is really to come up with
> >> something which is evocative in the 12x12 pixel size at which the RSS
> >> icon is often used. I've also tried to work something out, but
> >> haven't really gotten something I was yet entirely happy with, e.g.
> >>
> >
> > Good point. One thing to try and convey, however, is that the feed is
> > still RSS/Atom, it just has extra markup in it. It isn't a whole new
> > feed type. You can still put a GeoRSS feed into your vanilla RSS
> > reader and it will be ok. I thought maybe putting the globe in the
> > RSS's bottom-left circle, but that doesn't show up at 12x12. Seems
> > like there should become some typical way for a feed to add the
> > various extensions that it provides, but nothing other than the
> > standard has shown up yet at http://feedicons.com/
> >
> > There was a decent suggestion at "Subtraction":
> > http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2006/0530_little_orang.php
> >
> > I've attached 3 images at your prescribed 12x12, though I do see a lot
> > of sites use 16x16 as well. And 1 that is longer.
> >
> >
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> > Andrew Turner
> > ajturner at highearthorbit.com        42.4266N x 83.4931W
> > http://highearthorbit.com              Northville, Michigan, USA
> > <RSSPlanet_1212.png>
> > <RSSWorld_1212.png>
> > <RSS_globe_1212.png>
> > <GeoRSS_chiclet.png>
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