Yahoo! Mail for iPad and iPhone contains tasty HTML5 goodness

While Yahoo! Mail isn't as wildly popular as, say, Gmail, there are still a lot of people who have Yahoo! Mail accounts. After all, you need a Yahoo! account to use Flickr, so many people sign up for the free accounts without a second thought. For the most part, the Web-based mail client has been a real yawner -- until now.

Yahoo! has rolled out an HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo! Mail for iPad, following a successful rollout of a similar Web app for iPhone. To get to the newly-refreshed mobile sites, you just point Safari on the iPad (or iPhone for that matter) to http://mail.yahoo.com.

The iPad app is very usable, particularly in landscape mode where the side-by-side panes have room to "stretch out" for readability. When you're offline, Yahoo! Mail uses HTML5's local caching capabilities to let you read and search messages that you've previously received. Organization of messages is made easy by using a full search function and personal folders, and there are preset Smart Folders that collect messages from those in your Contact list, save attachments from incoming mail, and store photos that have been mailed to you. When photos are attached to an email, you can view them as previews in the inbox view or in their full size by tapping a Full View button.

If you're a current Yahoo! Mail user or are just looking for a new free email account, you might want to give the new HTML5 mail sites for iPad and iPhone a try. They're surprisingly clean, trouble-free, useful, and most importantly, free.

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Source: http://ymobileblog.com/blog/2010/08/17/yahoo-%E2%80%98delive…

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Pat

New Yahoo e-mail interface keeps locking up on my iPhone. Am I alone on this. I am accessing through Safari browser. Worked a couple of weeks ago just fine. Maybe the upgrades to iPhone software did something, but I am at a loss. Any ideas?

August 24 2010 at 9:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

IPPlanMan

Wake me up when Yahoo Mail supports Desktop IMAP to Apple Mail or Outlook....

Yahoo Mail is so backwards that they make you pay 20 dollars a year for POP Mail access... That's right: POP Mail access, through Yahoo Mail Plus...

So all those "Push" messages that go to your iPhone/iPad or this stupid webmail feature won't sync up with your Desktop Client if you make any edits/changes, etc... isn't that convenient?

In comparison: AOL offers Desktop IMAP support. GMail offers Desktop IMAP support... and they both do it for free.

Get a clue Yahoo...

August 18 2010 at 5:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NutMac

I would love to use the iPad/iPhone version of Yahoo! Mail on the desktop. The current implementation is a bloated mess.

August 18 2010 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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hmcnally

I played around with it by changing the user agent in Safari... much agreed. Almost usable... if it weren't for the touch/drag UI.

August 19 2010 at 9:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MILE

Since I never liked Gmail but have been using Yahoo! Mail for years, I'm glad to see they are keeping upâ€¦! But what really bugs me is that for some unknown reason they still don't offer IMAP integrationâ€¦!

August 18 2010 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Rdnymllnsktr

IMAP is supported when you pay to upgrade.

August 18 2010 at 2:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JedixJarf

nice lookin interface :), much better than gmails

August 18 2010 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FearlessFreep

I like it, though I just tried it and it's a bit stilted in it's response. I use mail.app for my Yahoo account when I'm on the iPad and am trying to figure out when I'd use this instead. Still, I'm glad that Yahoo has responded.

And I've had a Yahoo account so long, my user ID is from the era when you were limited to eight characters only.

August 18 2010 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MacBrian

Now if Yahoo would just implement IMAP so *all* my folders and read/unread status would be identical on *all* devices! I switched to GMAIL for that very reason. Yahoo's lack of IMAP drove me to GMAIL even though I much prefer Yahoo. (Gmail's "threaded conversations" is a confusin feature than I dislike, but it's only "threaded" if you're accessing it through the web browser interface.)

August 18 2010 at 12:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gib

I like this. While I use the built in Mail.app and love the interface, my wife will often check her email while we are going to bed, and the interface would not allow you to scroll through images, attachments, and long emails...

Thanks, Yahoo!

August 18 2010 at 12:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

LGgeek

The interface works very well ( I'll skip the which is better email wars)
The controls on the bottom is a nice touch. (I would say hello mobileme are you listening but then again apple never listens to its customers). It's good that Yahoo still has some technical folks left to do things, maybe there is hope for them.

August 18 2010 at 12:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cwg25

There should be a confirmation for the "delete" button on the HTML5 Yahoo email version, otherwise I think its great. I'm glad to see Vimeo on board with HTML5 now too. http://iPadLot.com

August 18 2010 at 11:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply