New Yahoo! Mail - Wooooooahhhhhh

[sa_20v]

Has anyone tried the new Yahoo! mail yet (codenamed CandyGram). It's the dogs danglies!!

www.yahoo.co.uk/mailbeta

[neil_cardiff]

sa_20v said:

Has anyone tried the new Yahoo! mail yet (codenamed CandyGram). It's the dogs danglies!! www.yahoo.co.uk/mailbeta

Never done before with Webmail...

Pah, Outlook Web Access has been doing it for years...

Anyhoo, off to the right forum

[Moose.]

Bah! Bloody flash based websites.......

[zumbruk]

Moose. said:

Bah! Bloody flash based websites.......

Hope they offer some alternative, otherwise I'll be going elsewhere.

[sa_20v]

The mail program itself isn't flash (thank god) but the promotion site is!

[billb]

yeah yeah its oddpost rebadged that some of us have been using for years....so naaa

and it doesnt work on ie 7

>> Edited by billb on Thursday 30th March 10:34

[Nacnud]

We looked at this last week.
It's a massive chunk of Javascript using hundreds of inline Iframes.
And needs a fair old chunk of client CPU........

Our companies product is also very JS rich and we are re-enginnering it returning to as close as script free as possible. Really made us sit up to find a company as large as Yahoo is going the other direction. Yup - we identified all the key weaknesses in Yahoo that we have in our own product. Good luck to their customer support, they'll need it - unless it's all premium rate phone support in which case - thieving money grabbing toe-rags

[sa_20v]

billb said:

and it doesnt work on ie 7

That's on it's way apparantly!

[pentoman]

I signed up to the beta about 3 weeks ago, but don't have in 'invite' yet. Do you have any? Or does it not work like that?

[billb]

sa_20v said:

billb said: and it doesnt work on ie 7 That's on it's way apparantly!

hope so as i miss me oddpost

[tulip]

I got the beta invitation last week - didn't sign up for anything though

Much better than the old version but it takes ages to load in sometimes

[Moose.]

Did any of you guys used to have a RocketMail account? That's what mine used to be before Yahoo took them over. Yahoo's ok, but has that stigma attached to it like Hotmail. Rocketmail was totally unknown.

[sa_20v]

pentoman said:

I signed up to the beta about 3 weeks ago, but don't have in 'invite' yet. Do you have any? Or does it not work like that?

That'll be on it's way soon too, or so I understand, I hear on the grapevine that the uptake has been huge for this product.

[pentoman]

sa_20v said:

pentoman said: I signed up to the beta about 3 weeks ago, but don't have in 'invite' yet. Do you have any? Or does it not work like that? That'll be on it's way soon too, or so I understand, I hear on the grapevine that the uptake has been huge for this product.

Got it this morning....

It's pretty cool I guess, but I'd got so used to the simple old style interface I'm not sure if I care.

Also, for some reason I get pop access to my yahoo account, even though it's only supposed to be a feature if you pay for yahoo plus! Bonus eh.