Rogers (Yahoo!) New Webmail
By: SmrtySsa
on Sunday, May 14th 2006 at 10:27pm
I was checking my Rogers email account today, it's something I do once every couple of months. Usually I just see what rogers is spamming me with, or if they have anything to complain to me about.
Today though, it asked me "Do you want to try the new beta?" It explained a little bit of fluff and I said sure!
It then threw a warning at me about an unsupported operating system, go figure. It actually let me continue on though regardless of this.
My first impression was "wow." This thing is like a real email client. It even behaves as one for the most part.
There are hotkeys, tabs, and rss support, spam filtering and more. The RSS support is directly integrated with the whole Rogers Yahoo! system so I already had a few in there from when I added them to my main rogers 'start page' (again something I never acutally use). It shows a calendar and a notepad too, but those are just links to the other services that Rogers Yahoo! provides and are not actually part of this email system.
Tabs for open emails
Hotkeys
More Hotkeys
Compose Window
Overall it looks pretty decent for a website application. It's just another sign of many more things to come. Every day something else comes out and the insanity rolls on.
I still won't use it for my primary mail though.
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SmrtySsa Wrote...
Tuesday, May 23rd 2006 at 11:15pm
Bell and Rogers are both offloading their end-user services to third parties (again - remember when rogers went with @Home? Yeah, that was great). At least this time they're using large, established companies instead of some random upstart.
Yahoo!'s new site design is pretty spiffy too Yahoo! - i think, although it's typically overkill for me since my default start page is about:blank :) It's just nice to see fancy, fast websites without (or very limited) flash, or any plugins what-so-ever.
mike Wrote...
Wednesday, May 24th 2006 at 7:51am
Flash == teh suq
Flashblock + AdBlock + Filterset Updater == Slightly better browsing
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dsrekuta Wrote...
Tuesday, May 23rd 2006 at 10:42pm
Yeah, the new Yahoo Mail Canada (Yahoo.ca) beta came out a couple of months ago, so it figures Rogers Yahoo would have it as well. It seems faster than the original, but there are still a few bugs. "Move" doesn't work, but the drag and drop works fine. I don't think the Yahoo.com (USA) offers the beta yet. Overall, I prefer it to MSN Hotmail, which is what the jerks at Bell Sympatico are switching everybody over to.
I use it exclusively for newsletters and mailing lists, mostly HTML, that I am not in a hurry to get at, and the 1 Gb storage for archiving this kind of stuff doesn't hurt either. The RSS works well, although I am not craxy about the restricted view pane width. The right hand side is taken up by advertisments, which I don't see because of the pop-up and ad blocker in my browser (Mozilla 1.8)