web feed
On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors ''syndicate'' a web feed, thereby allowing users to ''subscribe'' a channel to it by adding the feed ...
technology based on the hAtom Microformat that allows users to subscribe to portions of a web page.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
developed the Web Slice format, and published a specification under their
Open Specification Promise The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP) is a promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert its patents, in certain conditions, against implementations of a certain list of specifications.
The OSP is not a licence, but ...
. The specification is not published by any independent standards body. Introduced in
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Microsoft Wind ...
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
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008, by the Mozilla Corporation.
Firefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko (layout engine), Gecko layout engine for displaying Web page, web pages. This version fi ...
implementation of
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
Webslices. It allows you to "follow" an area of a web page through a dedicated feed bookmarked in a new toolbar. With
Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a userscript manager made available as a Mozilla Firefox extension. It enables users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser (also known as augmen ...
, 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.
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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.
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
MSDN
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing ...