


Click the web slice button on IE8's Command bar, then select the slice you want to subscribe to. To subscribe to a web slice, begin by navigating to the web page that you wish to track. This slideshow is a web slice when you subscribe to the slice, you can see when new content (stories) have been added to the slideshow. The same button appears on the web page itself when you hover your cursor over the available content (see Figure 2).įigure 2 Here's the web slice on the page click the green button to subscribe to the slice.įor example, the MSN home page contains a slideshow of top news stories. When content is available for subscribing, you'll see a green web slice button on IE8's Command bar (see Figure 1). Not all web content is available as a web slice, however. IE8 can then keep you informed when the specific content on a page has been updated. A web slice is a part of a web pagenot the whole pagethat you can subscribe to, similar to the way you subscribe to an RSS feed. One of Internet Explorer 8's most intriguing new features is something called web slices. So what are these new featuresand how do they work? To be honest, Microsoft doesn't put these new features front and center, but they're there when you click (or right-click) the right places. All of these features let you do in a click or two what used to take several minutesif you could do them at all. These featuresin specific, web slices, suggested sites, and acceleratorscan speed up and add more power to your web browsing. Internet Explorer 8 adds some new features not found in previous versions of the browser.
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