Web Slices will be kept updated by the browser automatically and can be viewed directly from the browser’s Favorites bar, complete with graphics and visuals.įor images of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, click here. Web Slices are snippets of an entire page that a user can subscribe to. IE 8 specifies an X M L-based encoding that enables a Web application or Web service to be invoked as an Accelerator service. According to Microsoft, Accelerators eliminate the need to copy and paste content between Web pages.

“This means there is a tremendous number of opportunities for developers to differentiate a Website or to do various things with it,” Nash said.Īccelerators are a form of selection-based search that enables a user to invoke an online service from any other page using only the mouse. In an interview with eWEEK at the MIX09 event here, Mike Nash, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows product management, told eWEEK that Microsoft also is announcing that there are more than 500 new add-ons for IE 8 in the way of accelerators, Web slices and visual search. The timing of the release is to coincide with a keynote to be delivered by Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft, who will formally announce the technology’s release to the Web. Microsoft officials at the company’s MIX09 conference here said IE 8 will become available for download from the Internet Explorer 8 Website at 9 a.m.

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft will release its Internet Explorer 8 browser for download on March 19.

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