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 pinning allows you to "pin" a website to your Windows 7 taskbar for easy access later. The pinning feature, by itself, isn't really all that interesting 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

The code to make this happen is very straightforward. A new meta tag was defined called "msapplication-task" which allows you to define 

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&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;
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