Mastikhor
17th May 2006, 06:22 PM
New Yahoo! Mail Beta (http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/2005/09/14/review-new-yahoo-mail-beta/)
Gmail is suddenly looking a little clunky. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers. Thus, Yahoo! becomes the first major e-mail provider to keep the Inbox in view while reading a message. That alone is news, but it's not, in my opinion, the biggest news.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/6291076097575176.JPG
The new Yahoo! Mail features a tabbed interface whereby you can line up several messages for later perusal, very much like Firefox's tabbed browsing. Double-click any message header to open that message in a new tab. The Compose window now opens in its own tab, keeping the Inbox available. Retaining access to the Inbox while reading and writing mail is the key to this upgrade in my mind, though Yahoo! is not emphasizing it in its marketing.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7559112799155434.JPG
Right-click context menus are also new, and very welcome. Open, Print, Reply, Forward, Mark read/unread, Flag, Clear flag, Delete, Add sender to Address Book, and View full header (in a popup) are in the right-click menu. single-key keyboard commands are in there now, handily, and a right-click on a message header reminds you what they are. Also, a snazzy drag-and-drop feature lets you move messages among folders; it is startlingly pretty.
:thumbup1: :thumbup1:
Gmail is suddenly looking a little clunky. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers. Thus, Yahoo! becomes the first major e-mail provider to keep the Inbox in view while reading a message. That alone is news, but it's not, in my opinion, the biggest news.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/6291076097575176.JPG
The new Yahoo! Mail features a tabbed interface whereby you can line up several messages for later perusal, very much like Firefox's tabbed browsing. Double-click any message header to open that message in a new tab. The Compose window now opens in its own tab, keeping the Inbox available. Retaining access to the Inbox while reading and writing mail is the key to this upgrade in my mind, though Yahoo! is not emphasizing it in its marketing.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7559112799155434.JPG
Right-click context menus are also new, and very welcome. Open, Print, Reply, Forward, Mark read/unread, Flag, Clear flag, Delete, Add sender to Address Book, and View full header (in a popup) are in the right-click menu. single-key keyboard commands are in there now, handily, and a right-click on a message header reminds you what they are. Also, a snazzy drag-and-drop feature lets you move messages among folders; it is startlingly pretty.
:thumbup1: :thumbup1: