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Wikipedia gets WebSlices, or at least one WebSlice
Want to see how that newfangled WebSlices in Internet Explorer 8 work? Just fire up IE8 beta and surf on over to Wikipedia, where you can find a WebSlice in an article on the Acid3 internet standards test. Blogger Long Zheng brought the new feature to our attention.
Here's how it works. When you visit a page with an embedded WebSlice, like the Acid3 Wikipedia page, a little purple symbol will pop up when you scroll your mouse over a portion of the page which is available as a WebSlice. Click the icon and a pop up menu will ask if you want to save the content to your favorites bar. Once you do, you'll be able to see that content by clicking the bookmark in your favorites bar, without clicking through to the actual web page.
What makes this different from a regular bookmark is that you'll only see a portion of the page. In this example, a chart showing how well different web browsers perform on the Acid3 test. As the Wikipedia article is updated, you'll always see the latest version in your browser without having to constantly revisit the Wikipedia page.
Now honestly, we're not convinced this is the best use of WebSlices. There's only so much room in the favorites bar, and do you really want to clutter it up with a chart showing Acid3 compliance results? But until more blogs and news sites that are updated more frequently start adopting WebSlices, we figured we'd point you toward Wikipedia just so you can see the technology in action.
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Brian said 2:57PM on 3-28-2008
What would be the best use for webslice?
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BurningChicken said 2:58PM on 3-28-2008
WebSlices.
Are our lives really so full and our time so in demand that we can't take the extra half second to click open a new tab, click a bookmark and either a) wait for the page to load or b) switch back to another tab, continue browsing and then switch back to the new tab, after the page has loaded? Or what about clicking the refresh button when we want to check out the new content? Or maybe that's just too 1998.
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Waleof Suous said 8:58AM on 5-12-2008
tell that to Cooliris, the maker of Cooliris preview, one of the most popular Firefox addons.
Waleof Suous said 7:41AM on 5-01-2008
it would be good a couple months ago where the browsers are competing to reach 100/100 first and the result changes frequently. But now there's little change in the numbers, and will remain so for the foreseeable future
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