A request. Please don't tweak the little white-on-orange XML icon. I'm seeing variations out there. That's not cool. Before we started promoting it, there was no such thing. It's value is diluted by varying it. If you don't like it, do something completely different. But a little change here and there, and eventually its value is gone.

Oh PLEASE! It's a godawful ugly little icon and always has been. 90% of Radio users are not designers and/or can't be bothered to spend the time to tweak it. Those who do are just improving the visual landscape for everyone else.

What value exactly is Dave referring to? It doesn't do much by way of "branding" for Userland, so that can't be it. It screams "ugly-orange-here-I-am," but unless you already know why XML might be useful to you (and let's face, most newbies might be looking for "news feed" or... perhaps "RSS") it's not helpful at all.

"That's not cool." Give me a break. His little icon isn't cool. Throwing a hissy fit over the evolution of a teeny-tiny .gif graphic isn't cool. If he wants to make a big trademark issue over it, he will truly be joining the ranks of the massively uncool. Yeah, they promoted it. Yeah, it's catching on to the point other people decide they want something recognizable yet less butt ugly (like for example these from Antipixel). He should be proudly rejoicing instead of complaining.

May I politely (yeah, right) suggest that Dave get down off it? (To further register my protest, I've swapped in the Antipixel version, even though I still hate the orange.)
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