In IE9, mail is always at hand

We are glad to introduce an innovation for users of Mail.Mail.Ru in Internet Explorer 9 - now you can drag your Mail to your Windows 7 taskbar.

To do this, simply attach the Mail.Ru icon from the Internet Explorer 9 browser bar to the taskbar.

What are the pros?

• You get quick and direct access to Mail
• You can check mail and write a letter in just one or two clicks
• Instant notification of new emails

As it turned out, sticking a site to the taskbar is very simple. This technology is called Pinned Sites and is available in Internet Explorer 9 under Windows 7. In the simplest case, it is enough to write several meta tags in the html-code of the page, which will set the initial settings for the window attached to the taskbar.

For example, we did it this way: As you can see, these tags specify the name of the "application", the URL of the start page, the colors of the browser buttons and the context menu items. Using javascript, you can expand the capabilities - for example, Mail.Mail.Ru notifies the user of the presence of new letters by changing the icon on the taskbar. If you want to apply this on your site, MSDN has a detailed description . Sergey Martynov, project manager, Post Office Mail.Ru