I'm of the opposite mind. Leaving IE users adrift re RSS seems unnecessary and hardly in the user-friendly spirit. Besides, I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers to use Thunderbird or a newsreader to manage feeds, and the autodiscovery does nothing for that purpose. (Firefox requires me to create a live bookmark just so I can copy the feed address and paste it into another client, so then I can delete the live bookmark.) I consider it only common courtesy to offer up a feed link that is a visual offer for website visitors, and can be copied and pasted into a different program. (Also, if you want to pull a feed into your own Drupal site's aggregator, the autodiscover will not help you, either.)

What's more, the taxonomy feeds could be confusing to the website visitor as most sites do not have autodiscoverable feeds of their tagged content. Would the average web visitor even think to consider that live bookmarking a display of posts on "Christmas", for example, would not bookmark the entire site's feed?

While it would be nice to have more control over how and where the feed icons appear, I think 86ing them altogether to suit a personal aesthetic would be unfortunate. Maybe I'm wrong, but most people implementing Drupal I believe would be looking for them.

Laura

Bèr Kessels wrote: 
Op vrijdag 23 december 2005 22:15, schreef Neil Drumm:
  
On my personal sites I hide it entirely and rely on the browser picking
it up (I figure this is fine since my audience is technical and many use
Firefox or Safari, but I haven't checked the stats really).
    

Yup. Feeds trough 'icons' or buttons is just plain silly.  It is unfriendly, 
It requires users to jump trough hoops (copy-pasting and the likes).

I know IE does not support it. I know IE is approx 100% of the market share. 
But still, having it as metadata in drupals header is (imo) more then enough.

I vote for removing all ugly XML or RSS icons. Anywhere in Drupal (and leave 
it to themes if they insist to add them).

Bèr