At MIX10, Jon Box – a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft – spoke with SocialWendy about Internet Explorer 8. In addition to highlighting the fact that IE8 makes the Internet easier, safer, and faster, Jon talks about three unique capabilities found in IE8:
Furthermore, Jon highlighted how a web slice allows a user to subscribe to a piece of content on a web page, and also explain how a user can leverage an accelerator – such as Walmart’s accelerator – to make it easier to search for information and goods on the Internet.
If you’d like more information on how to do this yourself for your own web pages, take a look at the following resources:
MSDN
Excellent blog posts
Also, if you want to take a look at some great web slices, try out the following:
McDonald’s McNuggets - http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/shopping/the_McNuggets_Village/
Winchester - http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/shopping/Winchester_Web_Slice/
Chicago Tribune - http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/news/Chicago_Tribune_News_Headlines/
Happy web slicing!