This Web Slices thing seems an awful lot like the Microsummaries that’s been in Firefox for a while now. Microsummaries doesn’t really seem to have caught on, and I doubt Web Slices will either.

Update: Oh, they’re called Microsummaries ([microsummaries.org]), but yeah, looks like the same thing essentially.

It is pretty much the same thing, and we provide Microsummaries on our site. The only thing is that the Web Slices actually have a nice interface to them whereas Firefox is limited to pure text at this point.

Update: Oh, they’re called Microsummaries ([microsummaries.org]), but yeah, looks like the same thing essentially.

Beauty of Firefox: A great feature in another browser is turned into an extension:D Maybe if IE followed suit it’d be a LITTLE more popular.

It would be interesting to see Microsoft do something like that, but I’m not holding my breath. I think at this point too many people have become dedicated to Firefox, and will almost refuse to stop using no matter what.

Ok, this may be the wrong attitude to take, but instead of having web slices why not just keep a tab open with the auction in and a visual preview of the page when you mouse over it.

You could definitely do that, but some people (like myself) try to minimize the number of tabs we have open at any one given time.

Activities are more that just search, just check out the other stuff Microsoft has:
[ie.microsoft.com]
The preview window speeds up simple things like getting a paragraph translated to another language or defining a word.