With Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out, I'm poking around with some of the new features available. One of the new features called website <a href="http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/startdeveloping/pinning">pinning</a> allows you to "pin" a website to your Windows 7 taskbar for easy access later. The pinning feature, in itself, isn't really all that interesting to me because you could create desktop shortcuts to webpages for years. What is cool, though, is the ability specify direct links to important pages from a pinned website. These are called "<a href="http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/productguide/clean/seamless-with-windows-7/jump-lists">Jump Lists</a>" and they provide navigation capabilities straight from a pinned website. The obvious use case for this is to allow users to immediately reach the most important pages on a site without having to open the browser, type in the web address and click on several links to get to a page.

The code to make jump lists available is very straightforward. A new meta tag called "msapplication-task" is available in IE9 which allows you to define the navigation for your pinned website. For example, I added the following jump list to my blog:

<a href="http://blog.reybango.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/rey-pin.png"><img src="http://blog.reybango.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/rey-pin.png" alt="" title="rey-pin" width="263" height="274" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1320" /></a>

and here's the code I added to my site to make that happen: 

[code language="html"]
&lt;meta name=&quot;msapplication-task&quot; content=&quot;name=About;action-uri=/about/;icon-uri=/images/about.ico&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;msapplication-task&quot; content=&quot;name=The Big List;action-uri=/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/;icon-uri=/images/list_links.ico&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;msapplication-task&quot; content=&quot;name=jQuery Posts;action-uri=/category/jquery/;icon-uri=/images/jquery.ico&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;msapplication-task&quot; content=&quot;name=Start Developing;action-uri=/category/javascript/;icon-uri=/images/script.ico&quot; /&gt;
&lt;link rel=&quot;shortcut icon&quot; href=&quot;/images/favicon.ico&quot; /&gt;
[/code]

The <em>content</em> attribute allows you to specify the name, action and icon that you'd like to use for your jum