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Screencast: IE8 Accelerators in 3 minutes

Part 2 in my series of IE8 3 minute webcasts, I wanted to tackle Accelerators.

Overall all, you’re looking at an XML manifest file which describes the accelerator, a 320×240 page which renders in the Accelerator window, and a call to window.external.addToFavoritesBar to add the Accelerator – piece of cake, right?

Check it …

Ohh, and for the more detailed lowdown on building Accelerators, check out the MSDN article.

For more check out:

-mk

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  1. April 4th, 2009 at 17:06 | #1

    Two more screencasts: Building IE8 Accelerators in 3 minutes http://bit.ly/g3CYE +Building IE8 Search in 3 minutes http://bit.ly/mgVIO

  2. Ed Lanphier
    April 7th, 2009 at 04:02 | #2

    Nice intro to developing Accelerators. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

    For readers who use Firefox and are new to IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

    I believe the accelerators you mention and build will actually work directly with KallOut-Accelerators for Firefox so users can stick with Firefox if they want and still get the benefits of the community-developed accelerators.

    EL

  3. April 15th, 2009 at 03:36 | #3

    IE8 Screencast: Webslices (http://is.gd/sxag), Accelerators (http://is.gd/sxap), Visual Search Providers (http://is.gd/sxaG)

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