Today a friend of mine told me that it’s worth trying out the new online mailing system of Yahoo!, because it has a new interface. Not as if i had any problems with the previous one, but this is really great. It’s so useful as a real mailing program, though it’s written in JavaScript and is compatible with (i think) all major browsers nowadays.

Most of you have probably seen websites that use the trendy Web2.0 technologies like AJAX and such. Well, i don’t think you could name any of those that’s not used in the new Yahoo! system. Do you like the dynamic interface of Gmail? Then you’ll love Yahoo!, not to mention it doesn’t need any invitations (at least it didn’t need any when i registered – so about 3 years ago), it’s totally open.

The scripting is really quick, though some pop-up boxes take a while to load, but i guess that’s when it uses Prototype-style client-server connection, and mine is a bit overwhelmed right now =).

It has everything that a full-power mailing program nowadays has, and in addition to the usual mailing services it also has implemented feed reader – though i wonder who’d use an online AJAX program for reading feeds… It’s a nice offer anyway.

If you ever want to be shocked by seeing a whole complex program coded in only JS and XHTML, then you should try this out…

10/10