Microsoft has named the date for the first beta of its successor to Internet Explorer 8.
You’ll be able to download beta code for IE9 on September 15, the company said Thursday. Microsoft told The Reg that it’s not releasing code to MSDN subscribers in advance, followed by everybody else. Microsoft is planning to formally open the download gates for IE9 at an event in San Francisco called “Beauty of the Web”.
IE9 will be faster than ever. Hardware acceleration is another great feature of the Internet Explorer 9 that will boost the browser speed.
Update: Just added official Tweet Button to my blog.
Twitter is great for sharing interesting things you find on the web. In fact, close to a quarter of all Tweets include a link in them. Despite the high volume of sharing, there is plenty of room to make it easier. Copying and pasting, link shortening, and bouncing between browser tabs just to share a link in a Tweet is too much work.
Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make sharing simple. It lets you share links directly from the page you’re on. When you click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear — pre-populated with a shortened link that points to the item that you’re sharing.
The Tweet Button is not only simple for users, but for publishers of all sizes, too. Recreational bloggers to large media companies can quickly and easily add the Tweet Button to their sites. It only takes a few lines of code. The Tweet Button will help publishers grow traffic and increase their Twitter following.
Starting today, the following sites will use the Tweet Button. All of them integrated this in less than one week.