After looking around for a while, I realized that while those two browsers were content with just looking for my favicon in the default location, IE needed more instruction. However, my favicon, which I had just placed in the root directory of my site was showing up with both Chrome and Firefox. After seeing this I realized that IE wasn’t actually showing up with my favicon at all. When I first added mine, it was showing up with the default IE icon. One final comment on web slices has to do with the Favicon that shows up with your slice.
#ENABLE IE8 WEB SLICES HOW TO#
The page linked above shows how to link to a different page for your slice content which I won’t show but you can mess around with yourself. How to Remove Unwanted Accelerators Removing unwanted. Some Accelerators use Web Slices, allowing you to see a piedce of the page it is pointing to.
#ENABLE IE8 WEB SLICES WINDOWS#
Finally the content area is where you put whatever you want to show. Windows IE8 Accelerators allow you to rapidly acquire information from other sources without leaving the page. Com” so that’s what I would have where “Title” is shown in the example. So in the image above, my slice is “Chris Risner. The span line is used to specify what the default title of the web slice. Let’s see how to create a Web Slice based on the function from the Composite.News package.
Then you should create a web slice and link it to the URL that calls your function. The style on that div is used for actually displaying your content when the user clicks on the slice in their favorites bar. In short, you should first make your rendering function public and available for calls via URLs. So what’s important here? Well the first div specifies that this is your slice. your most recent blog entry), you’ll put the following: Around the content you want to put in your slice (i.e. However, if that site is down (as it was for maintenance at the time of writing this), you can also do this. This seems to give a pretty good explanation on how to set up your web slice. So if you have your own site and you’d like to add a web slice to it, how do you do it?įirst you could just go here. (re: It’s kind of cool, but I don’t see it getting a ton of use). However, according to wikipedia, Microsoft has “donated the specification to the public domain.” While this might work out well for one or two sites, I can’t image anyone that reads a lot of sites adding that many web slices to their browser. As far as I know, as of now, only IE8 supports web slices. So if there is a particular site you read often, you can quickly hover over to see if there is something new to check out. From there you can hover over the site and see the most current content in that web slice. This is similar to the very common rss feed, however, the idea with a web slice is that you can access and view it directly from your browser’s favorite bar. You can select text in a web page, right-click, and get links for things like buy on eBay or see user reviews. Web slices allow you to designate a portion of your site that a viewer can “subscribe too”. With the release of IE8, Microsoft introduced the concept of Web Slices (scroll down a bit).
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