Tag: WEBSLICES

After testing the beta releases, one of the most promising features in Internet Explorer 8 is Web Slices. While it's a cool idea, it's not enough to drag me away from Firefox. Am I missing out on something? Not any more, thanks to the WebChunks addon. Add Webchunks to your Firefox installation, and then head over to the Internet Explorer 8 Gallery site. All of the web slices available there ...

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 ...

Firefox might not always be the first web browser to get cool new features. But pretty much any time a competitor launches something cool you'll find a Firefox plugin with the same features thanks to the open-source web browser's plugin system and enthusiastic developer base. When Opera launched a "speed dial" system for accessing your most frequently used web pages, Firefox developers released ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/03/05/internet-explorer-8-features-uncovered-public-beta-coming-today/"; Update: Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is available for downloading now. And please let us know what you think of Microsoft's latest web browser. Microsoft has posted two new web pages related to Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. The first page outlines some of the new features ...