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Sometimes conventions adopted by many unrelated sites across the web help make sites more friendly and familiar for visitors. That is certainly the case with adoption of the orange feed icon across the web.
It is such a good idea to develop ‘standard’ icons that there are now multiple ‘standard’ share icons and behaviors.
The later project started in part due to licensing and ownership issues with ShareThis’s graphics, which is something I’m sympathetic to, however at what point do we have too many conventions that the behavior of these conventions remains a mystery to visitors?
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Chris Casciano is an experienced freelance web expert, web standards advocate, markup freak and occasional photographer located in New Jersey. Place Name Here first launched in late 1998 and has served as portfolio, project site and journal ever since. Want to know more?