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Accelerators are a form of
selection-based search A selection-based search system is a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse. A selection-based search system allows the user to search the internet for more information about any keyword or phrase contai ...
that allows a user to invoke an online service from any other page using only the mouse introduced by
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in
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. Actions such as selecting the text or other objects will give users access to the usable Accelerator services (such as blogging with the selected text, or viewing a map of a selected geographical location), which can then be invoked with the selected object. According to
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, Accelerators eliminate the need to copy and paste content between web pages. IE8 specifies an
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-based encoding which allows a
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or web service to be invoked as an Accelerator service. How the service will be invoked and for what categories of content it will show up are specified in the XML file. Similarities have been drawn between Accelerators and the controversial smart tags feature experimented with in the IE 6 Beta but withdrawn after criticism (though later included in MS Office). Support for Accelerators was removed in
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, the successor browser to Internet Explorer.


History

Microsoft introduced accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 as "activities". It later renamed this to "accelerators".


IE8

Accelerators are included in IE8 by default as a type of add-on.


Sample Accelerator

This is an example of how to describe a map Accelerator using the OpenService Format: http://www.example.com Map with Example.com http://www.example.com/favicon.ico


See also

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Smart tag SmartTAG (acronym in Malay for Sistem Membayar Automatik Rangkaian Tol or "Toll Network Automatic Payment Systems") is an on-board unit (OBU) vehicle-based device used as an electronic toll collection (ETC) system over long distances (maximum ...
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Web Slice Web Slices are a web feed technology based on the hAtom Microformat that allows users to subscribe to portions of a web page. Microsoft developed the Web Slice format, and published a specification under their Open Specification Promise. The s ...
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Ubiquity (Firefox) Ubiquity, a legacy extension for Mozilla Firefox, was a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages. It ...
* click.to (browser independent)


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