#FEEDS WEB SLICES UPDATE#

Internet Explorer periodically checks for updates to your Web Slices when it finds one, the button on the Favorites bar flashes and its title becomes bold. You can then display a preview of the updated content by clicking the button. Tip The URL of the Web Slice source page appears at the bottom of the Web Slice preview window, to the right of the Open and Refresh buttons.Ĭlick the Open button at the bottom of the preview window to display the Web Slice source page on the current tab.Interact with any tool in the preview window, such as a Search box, that links to content on the Web Slice source page.Click any hyperlink in the preview window to display that page on a new tab of the current Internet Explorer window.Click outside the preview window to close it.When you finish viewing the information in the Web Slice preview window, you can do any of the following: You can preview updated Web Slice content without leaving the current Web page.

#FEEDS WEB SLICES UPDATE#

Click the Refresh button at the bottom of the preview window to update the content preview.

There are a few sub elements that you can use to further define the webslice: ‘entry-title’ and ‘entry-content’ … among others. It seems pretty simple you just have to wrap whatever content that you want to become a webslice in a div tag, and then just tag the div with the class of ‘hslice’. Creating your own webslices in your web pages

Webslice current view:Īs the image above shows, it does offer something a little extra over an RSS feed … one less click, I suppose. Now that we’ve subscribed to the webslice, a corresponding button appears in our Favorites bar that when clicked, displays this snapshot of the content that is there now. Whenever you come across a web page with a webslice in it, you get this nifty little icon appearing in the IE8 toolbar. Thankfully the webslice link seems to work and so I subscribe to the webslice … Webslice subscribe window: Of course, the MSN page doesn’t seem to work – all I can find is the RSS feed. So on the IE8 beta webslices page, they give you a few links to websites that support webslices. OK, sounds like RSS feeds to me … but I figure I’d give it go. With a click in the Favorites bar, users see rich “WebSlice” visuals and developers establish a valuable, persistent end-user connection. Website operators may also define a minimum wait time between polls to minimize requests.ĭevelopers can mark parts of webpages as “WebSlices” and enable users to monitor information they rely on as they move about the web.

Websites are polled at user-defined intervals, similar to the way RSS feeds are polled. WebSlices behave just like feeds in that users can subscribe to them and receive update notifications when the content changes. WebSlices is a new feature for websites that enables users to subscribe to content directly within a webpage. … I should also mention that when the webslice is updated, the user/subscriber of the webslice will be notified. By tagging sections of a web page, users of IE8 can then subscribe to it, much in the same way that they can subscribe to an RSS feed. In a nutshell, webslices are an IE8 specific feature that allows the web designer to tag part of a webpage as a ‘webslice’.

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