Windows 8: List of all available AppBar icons

Yea, I need to add more icons. Been busy working on the font for Windows 8.

Checked out the CSS -- the icon has an id of "page" which is associated with another element that has the same id. Hopefully someone at Microsoft sees it.

Windows 8 has a share charm, which is the preferred way of sharing content not items in the app bar.

The share functionality is built into the OS now so you don't need to dedicate a portion of your screen real estate for it. If you load the charm bar on the right of the screen share has a fairly prominent placement there.

because it has been the save icon for 30 years and no one has thought of a better one.

Why not?

That symbol has been consistently used as a save icon for decades now. A lot of people know what it means.

I doubt you will be able to find a save icon that works better. I see no point in fighting it. It will fall out of use soon enough anyway (when automatic saving finds more widespread adoption).

If you think about, it works pretty well exactly because no one is using those disks anymore. No one would think that this icon saves something on an actual 3.5″ disk, it’s the concept of saving that’s meant with this icon. Using a HDD icon or an SSD icon (i.e. going the naive update route) would only be potentially confusing. Those icons were and are commonly used to access the file system (and are consequently more likely to be thought of as representing opening something, not saving something).

I think there is a case to be made for sticking with older (but nevertheless in pop culture widespread and formerly popular) symbols. Take the old fashioned telephone receiver on the icon of the phone app of the iPhone. Why not update that and stick a modern phone receiver on there – you know, a smartphone! Let’s stick an iPhone on there! I think it’s pretty obvious that that would be a bad idea.

IMHO the floppy disk works better as an icon today than it did 10 years ago. When computers still had an actual floppy drive, it was potentially confusing that you'd click on the floppy icon to save to storage that 99.9% of the time would be the hard disk rather than a floppy.

Today the floppy doesn't represent a physical object anymore. It is literally an icon, a picture that stands for something on its own.

Compare with the pen and eraser icons: there is no physical paper on which to write (or erase) on a computer. In fact one of the primary goals of personal computing has been to rid us of pen and paper. This has not been reached yet, but maybe the day will come when a pen is as foreign to young people as the floppy is today... But I suspect that this stylized image of a pen will be still around then, with its iconing meaning ("Touch here to edit") only reinforced by the disappearance of the physical pen.

Sure, but which one do you want to use instead?