I had in the past written on IE 8 for Windows XP and how people are still running IE6 and are missing out some of the great web developer friendly things, IE has to offer.

Now, one of them is Web Slices whereby a portion of your web page can be “subscribed to” meaning that, whenever the content is updated, that portion starts getting highlighted.  You can read more on Web slices and also add a few to your IE8 browser from http://ieaddons.com/en/webslices/

Now, with Webslices and Accelerators for PHP, you can extend the web slice functionality to your PHP based websites and get better experience of rendering them in IE8.

This project is an open source codeplex project available at Download the package

Once you are done with the download, you just have to set up a few things in your site to make it web slice aware and utilize the power of it.

Our interoperability team, wrote a nice post on PHP and IE8 Webslices that has all the instructions required starting from setting up webslices to having them rendered nicely for your PHP based sites.

In our recently concluded Professional Developers Conference (PDC), we have made a lot of announcements that helps a lot for web development and there are pretty good announcements that help PHP Developers as well.

I will write about them in the subsequent posts. 

Till then, happy programming !

Harish Ranganathan