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I’ve been using the Y! Mail beta since like last September now.. it’s super ajax-y, and they’ve done a lot of great stuff with it.. It’s got a 3-pane (msft outlook-ish) reading UI, and sometimes you forget that you’re in a web application. They’ve even put in a right-click menu! The only thing that I really disconcerting is that the “undo” function with ctrl-z doesn’t work, and since I’ve forgotten that I’m in a web application, I try and “undo” things with the ctrl-z.. Not a huge, huge deal, but still something..

Anyway, Yahoo! has done a fine job with the application, although admittedly, I still somehow prefer the bare-bones utilitarian UI of gmail… and feature-wise, I find the threading view *very* useful (especially since my friends are prone to replying-all). Finally, I find that emails are easier to organize via tags rather than folders.. Ie, many times, an email doesn’t just fit into one folder, and with gmail that’s not a problem.. with Yahoo! (and Outlook, actually), that’s an issue.. you have to pigeonhole.

But, I really like the little bouncy dude that appears when Yahoo! mail is loading slowly.. Granted, performance hasn’t been too much of an issue for me with Yahoo! so it’s been kind of hard to trap Liam, but.. finally I managed to catch him today… And there he is bouncing away on the right.

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