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{ 2008 03 05 }

hAtom and IE8’s “WebSlices”

Microsoft have gone public with details of the first beta of IE8 at their Mix conference.

One feature that caught me eye is “WebSlices” which Microsoft describes as

a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes

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Why they interest me is that they use the hAtom format to achieve this (with one controversial change)

As always, exciting to see microformats in new and interesting places - particularly in the UI of the most widely used browser on the web.

Posted by john on Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at 5:13 pm, and filed under Uncategorized. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Artem.Chertov | March 6, 2008 at 6:29 am | Permalink

    Hi, John
    If precisely, add #webslices to URL :)

{ 3 } Trackbacks

  1. Über IE8s Webslices und hAtom at notizBlog - a private weblog written by Matthias Pfefferle | March 6, 2008 at 3:54 am | Permalink

    […] hAtom and IE8’s “WebSlices” […]

  2. FredCavazza.net » MIX 08 : Jour 1 | March 6, 2008 at 9:59 am | Permalink

    […] Notons au passage que les WebSlices repose sur le microformat hAtom (cf. hAtom and IE8’s “WebSlices”), pour ceux qui ne savent toujours pas ce que sont les microformats alors lisez ceci : Pour comprendre le web sémantique et la notion de microformats. […]

  3. FredCavazza.net » MIX 08 : Jour 1 | March 6, 2008 at 9:59 am | Permalink

    […] Notons au passage que les WebSlices repose sur le microformat hAtom (cf. hAtom and IE8’s “WebSlices”), pour ceux qui ne savent toujours pas ce que sont les microformats alors lisez ceci : Pour comprendre le web sémantique et la notion de microformats. […]

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