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Dexter_kcd · #**110** 03-09-2007, 02:02 PM

I think it is still nice to have in the forum display. Though both IE7 and FF have good auto-discovery for discrete feeds, lots of users still don't know much about RSS, and don't pay attention to the icons in their browser's menu windows. Having an RSS icon on the actual page brings it to their attention more, and with the hover text supplied with this mod it helps explain why the icon is there, and may lead to a user asking about trying RSS when they did not ever do so before.

Take a look at lots of major news websites. When you drill down into their news categories, they still provide an RSS or XML icon somewhere on the page. It helps provide a visual clue to the viewer right on the content of the page, rather then in the browser menu somewhere which many users instinctively tune out.

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