{"id":9243,"date":"2016-08-31T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2016-08-31T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:58:16","slug":"mozillas-search-for-a-new-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/mozillas-search-for-a-new-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla&#8217;s search for a new logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m employed by Mozilla. The same Mozilla that recently has announced that it is looking around for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/opendesign\/now-for-the-fun-part\/\">feedback on how to revamp its logo<\/a> and graphical image.<\/p>\n<p>It was with amusement I saw one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/opendesign\/design-route-d-protocol\/\">existing suggestions<\/a> for a new logo by using &#8220;:\/\/&#8221; (colon slash slash) the name:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9255\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion-1200x283.jpg\" alt=\"mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion\" width=\"474\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion-1200x283.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion-200x47.jpg 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion-450x106.jpg 450w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion-768x181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mozilla-colon-slashslash-suggestion.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; compared with the recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/a-new-curl-logo\/\">new curl logo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8936\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo-1200x459.png\" alt=\"good_curl_logo\" width=\"474\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo-1200x459.png 1200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo-200x76.png 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo-450x172.png 450w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/good_curl_logo-768x294.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me being in both teams and being a general Internet protocol enthusiast I couldn&#8217;t be more happy if Mozilla would end up using a design so clearly based on the same underlying thoughts. After all,<br \/>\n<span class=\"reference-text\"><cite class=\"citation book\"><q>Imitation is the sincerest of flattery<\/q><\/cite><\/span> as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Caleb_Colton\">Charles Caleb Colton<\/a> once so eloquently expressed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m employed by Mozilla. The same Mozilla that recently has announced that it is looking around for feedback on how to revamp its logo and graphical image. It was with amusement I saw one of the existing suggestions for a new logo by using &#8220;:\/\/&#8221; (colon slash slash) the name: &#8230; compared with the recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/mozillas-search-for-a-new-logo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mozilla&#8217;s search for a new logo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[33,425],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-mozilla","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}