Web Slices are a cool new feature in Internet Explorer 8! With Web Slices, users can add little snippets of the web to the favorites bar and monitor their updates. This post walk you through creating a dynamic Web Slice in as little as 5 minutes! Dynamic Web Slices use an Alternative Display Source, where content displayed in the preview actually comes from a “live” web page which the Web Slice points to.  While Static slices generate a preview of the sanitized entry-content element cached by the Windows RSS Platform which is stripped of script and other active content.

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