In this post, and the one following it I will present two new search providers for MOSS 2007. Search provider is an old feature of common browsers, IE8 brings it into a new level with the extended visibility it provides for search results. You can read more about IE8 search providers IE8 search provider . The two search providers I will present will be: 1. People search provider for searching people in the portal. 2. Documents search provider for searching documents in the portal. As we all know...
One of the coolest new features of IE8 are Web Slices – portions of a web page you can subscribe to and view updates directly from the Favorites bar . Instead of keep adding complete pages to the Favorites list for future visits and / or subscribe to rss feeds of a complete channel it is now possible to keep tracking parts of pages, and view them while working on other tasks with out the need to actually re-visit the page. This can provide web sites with the ability to allow users to track...