hAtom Microformat
hAtom is a draft Microformat for marking up (X)HTML, using classes and ''rel'' attributes, content on web pages that contain blog entries or similar chronological content. These can then be parsed as feeds in Atom, a web syndication standard.
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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 specification is not published by any independent standards body. Introduced in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Web Slices can be previewed in a fly-out window. , Internet Explorer 8 and 9 were the only browsers to support Web Slices natively, although
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and a ...
A Web Slice has 9 properties: the Web Slice id, entry title, entry content, end time, alternative display source, alternative navigation, alternative update source, and time to live.
The 3 required properties are: the Web Slice id, entry title, and entry content.
To disable Web Slices on a web page, add:
To specify the default web slice on a page with multiple web slices, add:
Sample Webslice
Title goes here
<-- The title -->
="ttl" style="display:none">360
The content goes here
Support
Mozilla Firefox
While Firefox does not have built in support for web slices, extensions have been created to give the ability to read web slices.
WebChunks
WebChunks is a Mozilla Firefox 3 implementation of Microsoft Webslices. It allows you to "follow" an area of a web page through a dedicated feed bookmarked in a new toolbar. With Greasemonkey, WebChunks can insert webchunks or webslices markup into any web page so the Webchunks extension handles it.
Fireclip
Fireclip is a Firefox addon that lets you "clip out" parts of a website and watch them for changes. It lets you track specific parts of a website in a similar manner to web slices.
= PageSlices
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Pageslices was another Firefox addon that allowed not only storing parts of websites but also organizing them by adding on custom pages.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS ...
, like Firefox, does not have built in support for web slices. However, the extension API new to Chrome 4 allows extensions to be created to give the ability to relatively simply create arbitrary webslices of any content from any page.
Opera
Although it was rumored that
Opera 10
The history of the Opera (web browser), Opera web browser began in 1994 when it was started as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, the project branched out into a separate company named Opera ...
would have support for web slices, this did not come to pass. Opera does have a "widgetize" feature likened to web slices which allows web pages to be displayed on a user's desktop.Prism-like widget creator - Opera Widgets - Opera Community My.opera.com (2009-11-19). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
See also
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Live bookmarks
Mozilla Firefox has features that allow it to be distinguished from other web browsers, such as Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Major differences
To avoid interface bloat, ship a relatively smaller core customizable to meet individual users' ne ...