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Yahoo! Mail Beta is expanding! *UPDATED* Now with 300% more info!

UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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Completely knocks the pants off of Gmail!

Screenshot!

edit 2: Summary of New Features

* Drag and drop messages into folders for better organization
* A preview pane makes it easier to read your messages
* Autocomplete - type the first letter or two of a friend's email address and Yahoo! Mail Beta finishes the address for you
* Speedier interface (DHTML for the techies)
* Really, really fast search for messages
* Keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-S to save a message
* Navigate from message to message with the arrow keys
* Messages open in tabs or new windows so you can multitask

It works using Dynamic HTML, XML and SOAP, technologies built right into the browser. You don't need Java or any plug-ins at all. There's no download and you can still access your account from anywhere. How neat is that! *NOTE: Safari is not listed as a compatible browser yet.

Read the FAQ *NOTE: FAQ states right now that Yahoo! Mail Beta is expanding for Mail Plus subscribers right now (people who pay) but will eventually roll out to all Yahoo! Mail users.

Click the tutorial to see it in action!
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
Don't really care, use Outlook for Gmail anyway.

So does it provide more storage than Gmail?
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I'm one of those who pays for Yahoo!, so I get about 2GB. Google is always expanding...I believe its ~2.5GB now.

 
Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Originally posted by: archcommus
Don't really care, use Outlook for Gmail anyway.

So does it provide more storage than Gmail?
Click to expand...
I'm one of those who pays for Yahoo!, so I get about 2GB. Google is always expanding...I believe its ~2.5GB now.
Click to expand...

what is better about it? you said it knocks the pants off.... how so? it would have to be really good for me to pay for it...
 
Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Originally posted by: archcommus
Don't really care, use Outlook for Gmail anyway.

So does it provide more storage than Gmail?
Click to expand...
I'm one of those who pays for Yahoo!, so I get about 2GB. Google is always expanding...I believe its ~2.5GB now.
Click to expand...

Same here, I've been nothing but happy with their spam filtering for a few years now. Well worth the $20/year.
 
Here's a screenshot I just took.

Notice the use of tabs, integrated RSS feeds (same as on my.yahoo.com page), custom folders, etc. The site makes extensive use of DHTML so drag-and-drop, resizable reading panes, drop down lists for addresses, keyboard shortcuts, context menus etc. all work. And of course its written to be W3C compliant so it works in FireFox without requiring custom IE-only crap.
 
So as far as I can tell, instead of using a standalone app, youre using a tabbed browser that appears for all intents and purposes to emulate a standalone app such as outlook, except that it uses its own tabs?

Tabs inside an app inside another app seems kind of retarded to me.
 
i believe this is the result of the oddpost acquisition... oddpost was the pioneer in ajax applications... way ahead of gmail's time.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
So as far as I can tell, instead of using a standalone app, youre using a tabbed browser that appears for all intents and purposes to emulate a standalone app such as outlook, except that it uses its own tabs?

Tabs inside an app inside another app seems kind of retarded to me.
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Well, support for using the browser's own tabs would require a browser-specific extension. But the final version will allow you to choose default behaviors, so you can choose whether double-clicking a message opens it in a new "tab-within-a-tab" or its own window.

 
good, now what are they doing about the 300 spam emails a day I get through Yahoo that I don't get at Hotmail or Gmail ? That's the only negative about them IMO.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
good, now what are they doing about the 300 spam emails a day I get through Yahoo that I don't get at Hotmail or Gmail ? That's the only negative about them IMO.
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I s'pose it sucks that you have to pay to get Spamguard Plus, when the others' free services are better than Yahoo's free service (but Spamguard Plus is the best, hands DOWN.)

 
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