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:

• Accelerators

• Visual Search

• Web slices

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

  • Web slices overviews

  • Subscribing to Content with Web Slices

  • OpenService Accelerators Developer Guide

  • Search Provider Extensibility in IE

  • Web Slices and Accelerators in PHP

  • Authenticated Web Slices

  • IE8 Web Slice Style Guide

  • ASP.NET Web Slices

  • Web Slices Tutorials

  • Web Slices Format Specification – Version 0.9

• Excellent blog posts

  • Building a Web Slice Does Not Guarantee Lighting Up the Web

  • IE8 Web Slices and Discoverability

  • An Expanded View of IE8 Accelerators

  • IE8 Fundamentals of Visual Search Providers

  • Simple approach to IE8 search providers

  • Dynamic web slice in 5 minutes

  • Web slice and feed authentication

  • IEAK

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!