Depuis une moment déjà l’icône RSS a disparu de la barre d’adresse de Firefox. Il paraît qu’on puisse l’afficher quand même.
What happened to feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4 ? - 0xDECAFBAD
▻http://decafbad.com/blog/2011/01/15/what-happened-to-feed-autodiscovery-in-firefox-4
Like it or not, one of the main themes of this next generation of browsers is minimalism—faster, smaller, less browser to get in the way of what you’re browsing. Yet, at the same time, Firefox 4 has the features of Firefox 3.6 and more.
You can’t just cram it all in there, so what gets prime real estate by default? People say it’s just a few pixels, that feed button—but is it so much more important than anything else that could go there? And before you answer, consider that not just for your personal use, but for the 100’s of millions of people using Firefox. How do you check your own biases and make a decision on that scale? You could make an educated guess, make a gut check. A lot of brilliant design happens that way.
You can also gather some telemetry from beta installs to see what people really use. Looking at a heatmap of clicks, the feed button is an absolute stinker. This isn’t a random whim of the UX team—seriously, it’s an order of magnitude less used than anything else in the toolbar (notice the one black spot):
▻https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com
RSS Advisory Board - RSS Autodiscovery
Editor’s Note : This is version 1.0 of this document, published Nov. 27, 2006.
▻http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
Après tout RSS est devenu un truc de spécialistes (... est-ce qu’il y a jamais eu une époque quand RSS intéressait le commun des mortels ?) alors il semble qu’il va falloir utiliser l’icône à côté de l’adresse et perdre quelques pixels en largeur quand on visite un site sans flux RSS parce que l’icône est affichée quand même.
Dans ce cas elle est grise, alors on sait qu’il n’y a pas de flux RSS. Une info de trop pour moi. C’est un peu comme si je collais une grande affiche sur ma porte pour me rappeller tous les matins que dieu n’existe pas.