Wikipedia gets WebSlices, or at least one WebSlice

Want to see how that newfangled WebSlices in Internet Explorer 8 work? Just fire up IE8 beta and surf on over to Wikipedia, where you can find a WebSlice in an article on the Acid3 internet standards test. Blogger Long Zheng brought the new feature to our attention.

Here's how it works. When you visit a page with an embedded WebSlice, like the Acid3 Wikipedia page, a little purple symbol will pop up when you scroll your mouse over a portion of the page which is available as a WebSlice. Click the icon and a pop up menu will ask if you want to save the content to your favorites bar. Once you do, you'll be able to see that content by clicking the bookmark in your favorites bar, without clicking through to the actual web page.

What makes this different from a regular bookmark is that you'll only see a portion of the page. In this example, a chart showing how well different web browsers perform on the Acid3 test. As the Wikipedia article is updated, you'll always see the latest version in your browser without having to constantly revisit the Wikipedia page.

Now honestly, we're not convinced this is the best use of WebSlices. There's only so much room in the favorites bar, and do you really want to clutter it up with a chart showing Acid3 compliance results? But until more blogs and news sites that are updated more frequently start adopting WebSlices, we figured we'd point you toward Wikipedia just so you can see the technology in action.

[via istartedsomething]

Tags: acid3, ie8, internet-explorer-8, webslices, wikipedia