Screencast: IE8 WebSlices in 3 mniutes
I keep telling people just how easy IE8 WebSlices are to make. They inevitably look at me like I just said “easy” in inverted commas. But seriously, they’re a piece of cake to write.
So, I figured rather than keep saying it, I should be a good little evangelist and show it.
Slices are a simple as a slightly modified <DIV>, and optional alternate display page and an optional XML feed for slice updates. There are few more little bits to it, but overall, they’re really that simple.
Behold, everything you need to get going with IE8 WebSlices in 3 minutes …
For more details, have a look at the definitive MSDN article on the subject.
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-mk
Categories: Technology, ie8
New screencast: Building IE8 WebSlices in 3 minutes – http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=813
nice tutorials.
So if I understand this correctly. Web Slices is another IE only feature? If so I simply don’t understand why the Microsoft team responsible for developing the IE browser can’t focus their development efforts on make IE 100% compliant first?
Is that too much to ask for as a web developer continuously struggling with bugs and problems in the rendering engines in various browsers.
Tom, there’s nothing inherently IE-specific about web slices. They’re based on the hAtom microformat: fully CSS 2.1 standards compliant with some known tagged entried for each of these entries.
In terms of focusing energies on standards compliance, we’ve been _very_ busy on that front, which is why IE8 has the most compliant CSS 2.1 implementation of _any_ browser out there. That’s good news for web developers, I’d say!
Best wishes,
Tim Sneath
Microsoft Corp.
Tom, email me – i can help you out.
So how come I cannot see the “Recent Comments” WebSlice when I use Firefox?
@LD because firefox doesn’t support webslices.
Tim’s point is that they’re built on top of hAtom meaning anyone can implement them. Are you suggesting that Microsoft should innovate every feature by committee with every other browser manufacturer? Best we can do is be as innovative as best we can, and base our innovation on industry recognised standards so that others can implement too if they want. The exact same way we did by using hAtom in the first place.
IE8 Screencast: Webslices (http://is.gd/sxag), Accelerators (http://is.gd/sxap), Visual Search Providers (http://is.gd/sxaG)
WebSlices in 3 minutes http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=813
I counldnt add a slice inside an iframe, the slice works fine in a window of its own, but once viewed in an iframe, it doesnt react, why?
delicate genius’ 3 minute how-to on #webslices was *infinitely* more useful than #microsoftsucks’ video. http://is.gd/1UVA2