New feature: Webslice
· 2009-04-20 14:31 by Thijs Kroesbergen for Brokenwire.NET
Brokenwire.NET now has it’s own webslice. You may wonder what a webslice is. Remember 1997 ? That’s when we had snippets of web pages on our active desktop! Well a web slice is just that, it’s a piece of information from a site inside a small window in your browser. Internet Explorer 8 is the only browser that supports these things right now.
When you have installed the slice on you browser’s favorites bar it will look like this:
So if you have IE8 you can click on the small link in the right sidebar on this site to add the Brokenwire.NET webslice to your own browser.
Creating such a slice is very easy, with some help of this blogpost about webslices I was able to do this in 10 minutes.
The basic HTML structure:
<html><head> <title>Page Title</title> </head><body> <div class="hslice" id="techologynews"> <h2 class="entry-title">IE 8 web slice</h2> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href='#'>Link 1</a></p> <p><a href='#'>Link 2</a></p> <p><a href='#'>Link 3</a></p> </div></div> </body></html>
The basic rules:
- The WebSlice must use the class name hslice in the container.
- Each WebSlice must contain an ID in the container. This is how the WebSlice will be differentiated from others on the page.
- The WebSlice must have at least one entry-title element defined. This will be displayed both in the page and in the feed button that appear in the Favorites Bar when a user subscribes to the WebSlice.
- While not required, each WebSlice should contain at least one entry-content element. This is the information that will appear when the user selects the WebSlice from their Favorites Bar.
There is also an official Microsoft whitepaper about webslices.
I wonder if anybody is actually going to use this, but it was a nice thing to play with for a bit.
Enjoy!
