It’s value must be an integer and expresses the number of minutes before update. This optional attribute indicates how often the item is updated. It’s expressed with the attribute class="endtime". Like for example when an auction is finished. This optional attribute indicates the end time of an object. Other optional attributes are: Expiration It has all the ingredients of a nice WebSlice. This results in the very simple code below. It contains the content of the WebSlice and is marked up with the attribute class="entry-content". There’s a third optional attribute that’s also important, and that’s Entry Content. This is the same as the hAtom standard property. This could for example be the name of an eBay object and could be contained in a with the attribute class="entry-title". This element must also have an unique id attribute. WebSliceįirst of all the WebSlices must be contained inside a containing element with the attribute class="hslice". Like all other Microformats, WebSlices relies on standard HTML elements and attributes to mark up the content. Of course you first have to install either Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers or the WebChunk Firefox Add-on. Other pages you can try this on is an article on Wikipedia about the Acid3 test and Internet Buzz on StumbleUpon. You access the Webslice by clicking on it and are presented with just that part of the original web page, readily accessible regardless of what page your currently at. If the content has changed since you last looked at it, the text will be bold. With WebChunks you get an extra toolbar in Firefox where your saved “chunks” appears, kind of the same way as Active bookmarks does. You store the Webslice by clicking on the icon. When you put the mouse cursor over a WebSlice, a blue icon appears next to the content (in IE8 it’s purple). You can try it yourself at eBays WebSlice enhanced search page. In this example I add a Suunto watch from an eBay auction to my WebChunk toolbar. It works just about the same way but is trickier to implement, plus the feature is hidden deep inside the browser where no one, except geeks, will find it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next version of Firefox also will handle this (and other Microformats) natively.Īctually Firefox has something similar which they call Microsummaries. ![]() There’s already an add-on for Firefox called WebChunks that handles WebSlices in a similar way that IE8 does. If your browser is WebSlice enabled you will benefit from it, if it’s not you won’t notice anything unusual. For example if you interested in an object on eBay, you can subscribe to the information about that particular object if it’s marked up as a WebSlice.īecause it has the form of a Microformat it’s a very safe technique to use. This is done by making parts of a web page into WebSlices. Similar to how you subscribe to RSS feeds. The basic concept is to allow users to subscribe to a part of a page. Is this yet another proprietary feature of Microsoft or is it a really useful evolution of RSS that will be adopted as a web standard? Since it follows the patterns of the Microformat hAtom, which is an unobtrusive way of marking up content with standard HTML, I think that it might actually be a pretty good innovation. ![]() In the upcoming new version of Internet Explorer 8, which is in public Beta 1 right now, there’s support for a new technique called WebSlices.
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