Yahoo has been offering a new, Ajaxy version of the webmail for about a year now. It’s been in beta this entire time. They’re supposed to remove the beta qualifier. I’ve been using it on my account for some time now. While it’s certainly more up to date than the interface it replaces, it’s a bit “heavy” (slow). It also has rather restrictive browser requirements. It supports IE and Firefox ‘natch, but not Safari and Camino.
“Our team is working hard to add Safari 3 support to the new Yahoo! Mail,” said Mahon. “Since Safari 3 is currently in beta, I understand it’s a bit of a moving target, and our developers are working with Apple to ensure compatibility. We hope to support Safari 3 soon.”
Hear that sound? It’s a light rustling sound. That’s the sound of the buck being passed. Rather than find a way to support Safari 2.x, they shoot for 3.x which is clearly still in development and subsequently blame its lack of stability for any compatibility. I can only hope they actually deliver.
On the other hand, Camino is based on the same rendering engine as Firefox. What’s up with that?
They're going backwards. It used to work with Camino: when I logged in I'd get a message saying something like "You are using an unsupported browser. Would you like to revert to the old version or go ahead anyway?" I went ahead anyway and it worked, albeit torpidly. Last time I logged in I was told to revert or download a different browser.
I believe Safari users can use yahoo mail classic. They should be used to lack of features it offers. ;)
Be careful what you wish for! Another e-mail service I use started putting all this fancy junk on the front page. Slow as molasses. It worked for a while, but then I started getting: "Wouldn't you like to upgrade to a compatible browser (Firefox 1.5 for the Mac) for a better e-mail experience?" Well, I've got Firefox 2.0, thank you very much, but I made very sure not to use it, because I didn't want a freaking "experience," I just wanted to check my e-mail! Unfortunately, they are now suddenly compatible with Safari, so it takes it forever to load. Compatibility is not always good!
Gee, Yahoo doesn't care about black people, er, Mac users. WHAT A SURPRISE.
Regarding Camino, I send an e-mail to Yahoo! with the following link every couple of weeks.
http://geckoisgecko.org/