The accelerator will then display the map in a pop-up or open another tab, depending on how the Accelerator has been written for that site.īuilding an Accelerator is really just about creating an XML file which describes your service. You can highlight the address and choose an Accelerator such as Map with Live Maps. Optionally accelerators can have a preview window.įor example, suppose you’re on a page with a street address. Clicking on an accelerator opens a new tab with desired results. As soon as users select some text in a page, a blue icon appears to list available accelerators. The goal here is to be more efficient than the old "copy-navigate-paste" model. Hslice defines the Web Slice section and must have an Id.Įntry-title is the title which appears in the favorites bar.Įntry-content is the body of your Web Slice (you can use any HTML content here).Īccelerators in IE8 are contextual services to quickly access information from another website in your current browser page. Here is the basic skeleton of a Web Slice: So to enable a Web Slice on your website, you just annotate your page with specific class names for the title, description, and content. hAtom will be one of several microformats open standards. hAtom is based on a subset of the Atom () syndication format. HAtom is a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings. Web Slices use a combination of the hAtom microformat and the Web Slice format to describe a subscribable portion of a webpage. That means that you can turn any part of an existing web page into a Web Slice! In fact you just have to define which part of you page can be “sliced” for the user. Web Slices can be hosted in any web page. Like any page, a “slice” can display text, links, pictures and even RIA elements (Silverlight!)… think about RSS on steroids.
Changes and updates are retrieved and users are notified visually of the updated information status. So Web Slices are like snippets of a page that a user can subscribe to. Web Slices bring the user’s favorite data (sports scores, weather reports, stock quotes, etc.) directly into the Favorites Bar.
#Turn on web slices how to#
Lately I wrote an article for MSDN to introduce Accelerators and Web Slices in IE8 and show how to build them.
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