Monday, February 23, 2009

IE8 and webslices

Their is a new feature in IE8 called web slices that I found through this channel9 video.

I tried to get the delicious links on this blog to show up in a web slice. All you need is the following:

<div class="hslice" id="item123">
       <p class="entry-title">Recent Links</p>
       <div class="entry-content">

             Content goes here  …
      </div>
</div>

I got the above code from here. Also their is an msdn page here.

Unfortunately, the javascript does some funky stuff that doesn’t get rendered in the web slice. So its just an empty web slice right now. I wonder if other browsers are going to support this in the future?

Mozilla and hypocrisy

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