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Internet Explorer 9 lets you pin Web apps to your Windows 7 taskbar
While no one else has gotten their hands on it yet, FastCompany has scored some time with Internet Explorer 9, and their images show a pretty killer feature at work. IE9 will allow you to pin your favorite Web apps right to the Windows 7 taskbar.
Just like your favorite desktop applications -- Chrome, Firefox, Winamp, you name it -- you'll be able to pin your favorite browser-based apps. Better still, it's not going to be limited to actual apps like Gmail or Twitter. Launch partners include everyone from Amazon to the Wall Street Journal.
Cooler still, the Web apps that you pin will also be able to feature customized jump lists (image after the break).
Sebastian will be live blogging the launch when it happens, but I've got to say -- for a first glimpse at what IE9 will be able to do, this is pretty damn cool.
Just like your favorite desktop applications -- Chrome, Firefox, Winamp, you name it -- you'll be able to pin your favorite browser-based apps. Better still, it's not going to be limited to actual apps like Gmail or Twitter. Launch partners include everyone from Amazon to the Wall Street Journal.
Cooler still, the Web apps that you pin will also be able to feature customized jump lists (image after the break).
Sebastian will be live blogging the launch when it happens, but I've got to say -- for a first glimpse at what IE9 will be able to do, this is pretty damn cool.
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Subscribe to commentstigsfanSep 15th 2010 10:45AM
Here's a great rundown (with screenshots) of the new IE9 courtesy of Ed Bott from Windows:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/internet-explorer-9-beta-review-microsoft-reinvents-the-browser/2430?tag=mantle_skin;content
The pinned web apps (w/custom jump lists) looks outstanding.
DavidSep 15th 2010 10:50AM
So...you can pin favorites as individual icons, rather than have them added as IE-specific pinned items? Excuse me, but shouldn't this be a Windows 7 feature (and browser agnostic), rather than an IE9 feature?
At least I can take comfort in the fact that Chrome and Firefox will probably both have this feature soon as well.
TurboFoolSep 15th 2010 10:54AM
Chrome ALREADY has this feature. I have its web apps pinned to my taskbar right now.
johnnySep 15th 2010 11:14AM
If you read the zdnet article, it states that the IE apps function differently and allow a greater level of freedom than the chrome apps
zhgingaahSep 15th 2010 11:37AM
Anyone else remember when integrate 'teh interwebz' in to the operating system meant a trip to see the DoJ and the European Commission?
*Le sigh...* :P