Internet Explore 8 Optimized for eBay

Following the launch of Internet Explorer 8 at MIX09 eBay has their Accelerator, Visual Search and Web Slice available at eBay. If you haven’t yet given it a try, as Tim Sneath Director Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team has very nicely captured the eight good reasons that might persuade you to check out IE8.

Here is a nice Channel9 video  with Jonathan Gabbai Global Innovation Manager, talking about how eBay is using the different features of IE8. In the first part of the interview Jonathan talks about the  eBay Web Slices, Accelerator and Visual Search Provider. In the second part of the interview he talks about the upcoming eBay IE8 Silverlight Sidebar which is currently in pre-beta.

IE8 isn’t a good browser, it is much faster than leading browsers such as IE7, Fire Fox and Chrome. Here is a nice video on the performance tests of real-world sites with leading browsers. A great web performance is about more than the speed of the scripting engine – in the real-world, it’s an end-to-end test of all the browser components.

The IE8 add-on gallery has roughly over 1,200 Web Slices, Accelerators, and add-ons available from companies like Digg, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon and more.

So don’t wait download Internet Explorer 8 and start enjoying some of the cool features like Accelerator, Web Slice , Visual Search and many…many more rich features!