Web Slice

Web Slices are a web feed technology based on the hAtom Microformat ^[1] that allows users to subscribe to portions of a web page.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} Microsoft developed the Web Slice format, and published a specification under their Open Specification Promise.^[1] The specification is not published by any independent standards body. Introduced in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Web Slices can be previewed in a fly-out window.^[6] As of 2012,^[update] Internet Explorer 8 and 9 were the only browsers to support Web Slices natively, although Mozilla Firefox had support via an add-on called webchunks.^[7]

A Web Slice has 9 properties: the Web Slice id, entry title, entry content, end time, alternative display source, alternative navigation, alternative update source, and time to live.^[1] The 3 required properties are: the Web Slice id, entry title, and entry content.

To disable Web Slices on a web page, add:^[8]

<meta name="slice" scheme="IE" content="off"/>

To specify the default web slice on a page with multiple web slices, add:^[8]

<link
 rel="default-slice"
 <!-- Must be "default-slice" -->
 type="application/x-hatom" 
 <!-- Must be "application/x-hatom" -->
 href="id of webslice"
 <!-- The ID of the web slice -->
/>

<div class="hslice" id = "hslice-id goes here">
 <!-- The ID of the hSlice -->
 <div style="display:none" class=<"entry-title">Title goes here</div>
 <-- The title -->
 <span class="ttl" style="display:none">360</span>
 <!-- How often to refresh in minutes -->
 <abbr class="endtime" title="10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 UTC"></abbr>
 <!-- When the link expires -->
 <div class="entry-content">
 The content goes here
</div>

While Firefox does not have built in support for web slices, extensions have been created to give the ability to read web slices.

WebChunks is a Mozilla Firefox 3 implementation of Microsoft Webslices. It allows you to "follow" an area of a web page through a dedicated feed bookmarked in a new toolbar. With Greasemonkey, WebChunks can insert webchunks or webslices markup into any web page so the Webchunks extension handles it.^{[7] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}

Fireclip is a Firefox addon that lets you "clip out" parts of a website and watch them for changes. It lets you track specific parts of a website in a similar manner to web slices.^{[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}

Pageslices was another Firefox addon that allowed not only storing parts of websites but also organizing them by adding on custom pages.^[20]

Google Chrome, like Firefox, does not have built in support for web slices. However, the extension API new to Chrome 4 allows extensions to be created to give the ability to relatively simply create arbitrary webslices^[21] of any content from any page.

Although it was rumored that Opera 10 would have support for web slices, this did not come to pass.^{[22] [23]} Opera does have a "widgetize" feature likened to web slices which allows web pages to be displayed on a user's desktop.^[24]

• Live bookmarks

• Subscribing to Content with Web Slices, MSDN
• Web Slices, MSDN
• Live Search Web Slices for Internet Explorer 8, Windows Experience Blog
• Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices, IE8 Videos on YouTube
• Web Slices Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Videos
• Add-ons Gallery: Web Slices, Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons

• Web Slice Format Specification - Version 0.9, MSDN
• Create a dynamic Web Slice in 5 minutes, IE8 Blog
• Internet Explorer 8 Web Slice Style Guide, MSDN
• Web Slices, Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
• WebSlices Archived 2008年03月10日 at the Wayback Machine, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Whitepapers
• Internet Explorer 8 for Developers: Web Slices Archived 2011年07月14日 at the Wayback Machine, MSDEV.com

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