When IE7 officially got launched the first thing I noticed was the RSS support. I'm quite a fan of RSS 2.0 and the ability to display the RSS feed on a web page and by the looks of it so are a lot of other people. Its great because all you need to do to HTMLify your RSS feed is specify an XSLT to use.

Unfortunately the folks at Microsoft have decided that once again they want to do things differently to the rest of the world. Don't get me wrong what the have done is quite nice and is very useful but what they haven't done is provided IE7 users with a choice. You either have it the Microsoft way or the Microsoft way. All that's required is an option to enable or disable the Microsoft option.

Not sure what I'm talking about? Click on my RSS feed in IE7 and then click on it in just about any other browser - see what I mean? 

Ah! That reminds me. Firefox 2 also does something with the RSS feeds it adds an RSS box at the top of the page. Don't get me wrong its very useful but in my opinion it should not appear on the HTML page it should appear as part of the browser! 

When I get a minute I'll post some screenshots so everyone can see what I mean.