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“If you’ve used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you’ll feel right at home,” Parry writes. “We’ve kept all the things users love about our new mobile Web mail experience, while also optimizing for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad. You can expect the iPad experience to be:”
• Faster and more reliable: If you’re offline, Yahoo! Mail uses local caching capabilities to help you access and search your messages even without an Internet connection.
• Smart: You can find and organize your messages using Full Search, personal folders and Smart Folders with messages from your most important contacts and optimized views for photos and file attachments.
• Feature Rich: View rich photo attachments in their full form, or as previews directly in the inbox view. Also includes a dual-pane view to make reading and organizing a breeze.
Parry writes, “The new Yahoo! Mail experience will be available globally to anyone who has an iPad. So if you do have one, simply open up Safari and head on over to http://mail.yahoo.com to try it for yourself.”
“Of course this is just the first version, and we’ll be constantly iterating to add new features, improve performance, and make Yahoo! Mail for iPad the best it can possibly be. And please let us know what you think. One of the great things about working on Yahoo! Mail is getting so much direct feedback from our users. It’s so exciting to hear about how people are using the products, and also to hear your ideas for how we can make our experiences even better,” Parry writes. “We’re looking forward to hearing what you think about the new Yahoo! Mail for iPad. Enjoy!”
Source: Yahoo! Mail Blog
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The non-Flash HTML juggernaut rolls on!!
Official statement from CEO Carol Bartz: “this iPad app [bleep] rocks! Who needs that [bleep] [bleep] Flash [bleep]!?”
This is nice, I tried it and I like it. But what’s the point of it at all considering Mail already supports Yahoo Mail natively? I guess it would be nice if I had to check my mail from someone else’s iPad.
Um, why only on the iPad? I want to access yahoo mail flash-free on my MacBook, please.
acid,
While your post was funny, it was a bit off the mark; this is not an iPad app. Yahoo had re-designed their web-site and removed all Flash content on it (for iPad users).
Up until now, the absolute number of web sites containing Flash content has steadily grown. I must wonder, though, if it is still growing, regardless of this high-profile reversal across the board (CNN, NYTimes, Vimeo, MLB, MSNBC/Fox, TV Guide, and many other major web properties). If the growth has stopped, and perhaps even reversed, then the strategy seems to be working, and Flash is finally walking into the sunset of its useful web life.
As long as Yahoo Mail fails to offer Desktop IMAP with Apple Mail, Outlook, etc, I will not give a crap about anything Yahoo does.
I was with Yahoo Mail for 9 years…. and as GMail caught up and passed it, I stuck with Yahoo…. but I’ve been Yahoo Mail free for a year now and it feels great.
GMail offers free Desktop IMAP support to multiple clients.
AOL offers free Desktop IMAP support to multiple clients.
Yahoo Mail does not support Desktop IMAP… In fact, there was a failed experiment with ZIMBRA, which was purchased by Yahoo, in which you had to use their dedicated and locked client to access Yahoo Mail via IMAP.
To think that Yahoo Mail makes you pay 20 dollars a year for POP access through Yahoo Mail Plus? Seriously? How on earth did Yahoo wind up getting featured as the “Push Email” provider of choice at the rollout? Did anyone else realize that messages would wind up out-of-sync with a service that didn’t support IMAP?
Yahoo is a joke… To think I’d respect AOL more is remarkable.
Eric
Very interesting. But how dare you come on here with this intelligent information. We are here to learn about politics and bash MS. There is no time for knowledge here.
I was using Yahoo search on my iPod touch. I quit when they wanted me to register to use it. Unfortunately went back to Google.
I sure wish Apple did search.
Stop using revolutionary! Geez that is getting old.