“When it comes to OS X applications, Yahoo is normally a bit (or a lot) behind the curve. The rather lackluster beta 2 release of Messenger for Mac provided Leopard compatibility but not much else, and offered proof of just how far behind the curve the company was. Yahoo! Mail is another example of Yahoo dragging its feet, since only yesterday did the new-look Mail get an upgrade to work with Safari 3 on OS X,” Justin Berka reports for Ars Technica.
“For the record, Safari 3 has been out since June of 2007, and the latest iteration of Yahoo Mail (called All-New Yahoo Mail) has been out since August. During the past few months, Safari 3 users on OS X have had to deal with with Mail Classic, or have been forced to use Firefox to get to the newer Yahoo Mail,” Berka reports.
More in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Full headline: “Yahoo! Mail finally works with Apple’s Safari 3 (at least until Microsoft takes over)”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Island Girl” for the heads up.]
Why would I want to use Yahoo’s mail? What’s better than Mac mail?
MDN, does someone have their foot on the server cable this morning? Happy Valentine’s Day.
Now we know why M$ wanted to buy Yahoo.
The plot thickens.
I really don’t care anymore. I use GMail, and actually nothing else.
I can’t stand Yahoo sometimes. Streaming music only works with IE on Windoze. No other browser, no other OS. Oh, but when it comes to the iPhone, they’ll jump on board. They could care less about everything else.
You just have to read this story about Yahoo-MSFT-Google:
Microsoft Just Made Google’s Year
I wonder when MacDailyNews will work with Safari. I took just over 2 minutes to boot the site and then open this article, reminds me of the old days of dial up. The most surprising thing is that it opens lickity – split on my windows XP computer at work.
So why is hotmail broken?
GREAT! I can now use my Yahoo! mail with Safari. I’ve been doing the “just this time” thing since they did the “upgrade”, it’s about time they recognized the need.
So. When can I expect my .Mac mail to start working properly again?It’s getting frustrating having to empty the Trash before I can look at, much less discard, more messages.
Dave
“Hotmail” Dave?
Sad.
I can see the headline now if/when MDN ever gets their shit together: MacDailyNews FINALLY works well with Safari! Mac users rejoice. Windows users smugly let them know they’ve been able to surf it for years that fast.
…and its even worse on an iPhone, btw. MDN crashes my iPhone ALL THE TIME.
crashes Safari, not the entire phone..
I see a lot of whining around the different comment areas on this site about how it takes MacDailyNews forever to open and load in Safari, such as “I wonder when MacDailyNews will work with Safari. I took just over 2 minutes to boot the site and then open this article, reminds me of the old days of dial up.”
Just to let you know, with Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard 10.5.2 is took me 5 seconds to load the site, and with a click on the link, another 5 seconds to load the article. All advert images are on, only the pop-up blocker is activated… So, maybe the problem is on your side. Something akin to having an empty tank and then yelling at the car company for making a car that won’t start.
I mean really, if it was taking everyone 2 minutes to load this site, a guarantee you that there’d be no no comments for any articles, because everyone would’ve deleted the bookmark to the site.
Yahoo is so 2002…
Why would I use Yahoo Mail, when GMail gives it to me for free over web AND pop. You gotta pay for that kind of access over there at yahoo. I stopped caring a long time ago.
They make it sound like using Firefox was a pain…
I am happy to know that I am not the only one who has a problem with super-slow loading times for MDN’s site.
Does their web developer actually think that if we have to look at the surrounding ads for 10 seconds before we see the actual text based content we are there to see in the first place, that it will mean more hits and potential money for the advertisers??
Go to MacSurfers site and watch it blister. Google is huge initially because their search site loaded extremely fast back when we were using 56k modems. They beat the competition and applied the KISS principle. Our company’s site is largely
flash based and it still loads faster than MDN’s site.
“(Yahoo! Mail finally works with Apple’s Safari 3 (at least until Microsoft takes over)”
I’m dreading that day. Hope it never comes. Yahoo! Mail is my primary Web mail account, although I use Mail.app for my POP3 email account through my ISP.
I second the comments about MacDailyNews loading times today; it’s been veeerrrryyy sloooooowww all morning. What’s up with that?
I am G man so I like all things G, Gmail, Gspot, Greek
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I love Yahoo Mail. I think it’s the best internet mail out there. GMail is great too, especially the free POP support. But YMail looks, feels and acts like a real app.
If MSFT ends up succeeding in buying YHOO, I fully expect all the cool stuff will be cut (Flickr, YFinance, etc.) and a culture of mediocrity will set in to temper whatever innovation was coming out of YHOO. This will be a HUGE loss for the consumer.
I have a feeling MSFT is not intent on a marriage, just a raid and smear. If YHOO is gone, MSFT moves up in the search engine ratings, and their profits go up. Typical MSFT modus operandi: destroy the competition, hammer them any way you can until you’re the only one left standing. Nobody seems to see this or think there’s anything wrong with it. The business press, of course, has not pointed this out.
I just surfed out to my Yahoo! Mail with my wife’s AliMac (10.5.1) and was met with the same “browser not supported” garbage. Revert “just this time” once again.
A bit of your childish nature showing thru today, MDN? Don’t get too carried away with the religious drivel. It’ll eat you alive.
My Windows Live Spaces website and online Live Mail account work fine with Safari 3. The only thing that doesn’t work is drag n drop uploading of files to my SkyDrive because that requires an ActiveX application. But manual uploading of files still works with Safari.
I’d bet that if Microsoft owned Yahoo! that the mail interface would’ve worked with Safari out-of-the-box. If Microsoft doesn’t save Yahoo! they’ll be dead and gone in two more years, which would be a shame being they’re one of the original cornerstones of the internet.
The whole world don’t revolve around a glowing Apple. The sooner you Apple Lemmings realize that the better off the whole world will be because The Rest Of Us just laugh at your religious drivel.
It always did work.
It’s the only time I used safari, since firefox wouldn’t.
“The sooner you Apple Lemmings realize that . . . “
Gosh. I hope not. It’s way too much fun pissing you off. You are very entertaining. I think it’s your zealotry and conviction that Zune Tang lacks.
“The Rest Of Us”
That’s a weird name for a support group but o.k.