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Quickies with Internet Explorer 8

Nick Hodge — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:48:50 +0000

Colleague in web crime, delic8genius, has crafted 3 fine 3 minute videos for web developers:

Screencast: IE8 WebSlices in 3 mniutes

Screencast: IE8 Accelerators in 3 minutes

Screencast: IE8 Visual Search Providers with suggestions in 3 minutes

Go have a squiz. It will only take 9 minutes.

Silverlight, Azure go to the Mardi Gras

Nick Hodge — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:27:18 +0000

Fellow Australian DPE-ers, Chris Bright, Michael Kordahi and Greg Willis have been busy working on a micro– mega– project.

For the last 30 years, Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian community has paraded down Oxford Street. The Sydney Morning Herald has a library of images from the parade: and has used the Deep Zoom feature of Silverlight to display these images.

Michael Kordahi created the front-end (Silverlight) and Greg Willis architected the back-end (Azure)

Well done guys.

Using Webslice and IFrames in WebSlices

Nick Hodge — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:03:51 +0000

Testing only. If you are reading this, please ensure you are using Internet Explorer 8

Webslices are new consumer feature in Internet Explorer 8. You can embed simple HTML within a WebSlice that is a portion of a pre-existing page. To get IFRAMES and OBJECT to work there is a little tweaking required. Then you get Silverlight and/or Flash.

The IFRAME/OBJECT content is stripped (for security reasons) by the RSS engine in IE8. However, when displaying a unique page â€“ things can get way more interesting.

In the example WebSlice below, I use an alternate display source. This alternate display is used as the content for the slice. This also permits smart styling in your slice; as used on http://istartedsomething.com/‘s Webslice. The xxxx.html below is the page with the Webslice content.

iFrame

Image

Object Embed

Thanks to Michael Kordahi, Chris Bright and Greg Willis for the push to check this out.

Liveslices.com

Nick Hodge — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:33:32 +0000

In the category of â€œwhy didnâ€™t I think of thisâ€ comes liveslices.com. Go have a look (obviously after installing IE8RC)

Webslices is one of the new end-user features of IE8. It is easy to implement on your website: I added it to http://www.nickhodge.com/ within minutes. Some microformat wrapping around changing content, and it is active.

WebSlices will mainstream web-site alerts where RSS has struggled.

Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

Nick Hodge — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:58 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Melbourne (Premier of Victoria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.

What about this website?

Not so good. Something is broken somewhere. In the week before TechEd 2008 I donâ€™t have time to completely diagnose and fix the wordpress template. So, sort of like welding it together for a few weeks until things die down — it is time for a simple fix.

How can you tell? See the â€œbroken documentâ€ icon on the right of the URL: this indicates that the site has been designed for older browsers.

There are two potential fixes. One is to click on the broken icon, and Internet Explorer will revert to Internet Explorer 7 mode.

A smarter fix for this web site is a one-line change to my template (in my case, header.php for this template)

“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=EmulateIE7” />

Refreshing the site, and magically it renders correctly, and there is no â€œbrokenâ€ document icon.