Yahoo To Update Mail Service

tonyq writes "Yahoo! is beginning beta testing of a completely reworked UI for Yahoo! Mail that incorporates DHTML technologies. The web-based application resembles a desktop e-mail client. Features include message preview; drag-and-drop filing; the capability of quickly searching e-mail headers, body text and attachments; and the ability to view multiple e-mails at the same time in separate windows and scroll through all message headers in a folder rather than one page at a time. Other niceties are auto-complete, right-click menus and standard keyboard shortcuts. A user who got an early look has graciously posted screenshots. Yahoo is also taking signups on their what's new for Mail page."

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[FudRucker]

i been using yahoo since the late 1990's and i am starting to become disgusted with them, there has been about three revisions of Yahoo Instant Messenger for Windows but their YIM for Linux has not been updated and left pretty much featureless, and since it has not been updated i somehow wonder if it is a security problem for users of Yahoo's Linux/BSD IM...

and their web based email when accessed with ANY web browser other than Internet Explorer is featureless and plain text only, when even google's gmail using Firefox on Linux offers more as in the ability of changing text font styles, size & color, gmail even has a built in spell checker too, i am just about to abandon yahoo like i abandoned msn back in 1998...

/rant!

Re:It looks impressive

[carlivar]

You're right, Yahoo should refuse all requests from the Chinese government and ignore the soon-to-be largest Internet users in the world (since the government would kick them out). In fact they should pump their money into a Chinese revolution towards true freedom.

Oh, wait, no one does that, not even the "do no evil" Google. I wonder how Google operates in China at all without doing evil, given that some might argue any support of the country is evil?