Yahoo! Mail Update: Now in Full Compliance of Acid Test
The Yahoo! Mail team was not satisfied with their acid test results, even though they only lacked support for a single item on our list. So they went off and remedied the bug and are now in 100% compliance.
When we launched the Email Standards Project we reported that the Yahoo! Mail clients rendered our acid test nearly flawlessly, falling short only on the list-style-image property. Shortly thereafter we announced that Yahoo! responded, not willing to accept a score of less than 100%.
I worked with a member of their development team who claimed their client actually did support this CSS property. We discovered that the issue was not a lack of support for list-style-image, but rather a lack of support for the shorthand list-style. Yahoo! pledged to remedy this shortcoming but didn’t promise any target dates. I therefore assumed it wasn’t a huge priority.
Well, the Yahoo! team again puts their best foot forward and shows us they care about our initiative. They have remedied this bug in both the “classic” and “new” versions of Yahoo! Mail, offering 100% compliance of our acid test. Our hats off to you, Yahoo! Mail.
Note About Longhand Versus Shorthand CSS Properties
As a result of our discovery that longhand and shorthand could render differently in email clients, we thought it would be best to test a longhand-only version of our acid test. As it turns out, we only discovered two differences in rendering:
- The Yahoo! Mail bug for
list-style-image, which is obviously now a thing of the past. - Windows Live Hotmail does not support the
backgroundproperty, so background colors are unsupported with shorthand of that property. Whereas within longhand we use background-color, which is supported.
Any chance to best Google. Hear that Gmail..? Oh, I’m sorry Gmail - I still love you.
Excellent! Thanks a lot Yahoo! for taking the time and effort to fix even an ostensibly minor rendering issue such as this. I wish the other email clients had at least 1/10th of your commitment to delivering a well-tuned product :)
why can’t i open my mails? what is wrong with yahoo these days?
just improve email services please, make it faster to open mails
how can i get back on classic yahoo e-mail i have e-mail i need to read and i can’t get on it i try to sign in and it asked me for a id iwont it back like i had it so i can read my mail
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Korean special investigative team are investigating samsung
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And the team investigates samsung corporation.
It contains korean companies samsung,huyndai,sk CEOs’ illegal issuing
stocks or bonds.
The quantity are plenty.
(Three company CEOs did(and are doing) many crimes to me.
Many koreans are knowing it.
But many koreans are bought off by illegal issuing stocks or bonds.)
The team are knowing it.
Korean special investigative team must investigate this.
But they are trying to conceal it.
I ask for asking for this criminal investigation to prosecutors in any
country.
And help the shareholders.
P.S)
Three companies are hacking me and trying to kill me.
And are suspicious to use my name and email illegally.
If you receive another message that I dictated above are not true,
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Yahoo definitely cares. They responded earlier and now they fixed the short-hand issue. I hope someone can wake gmail up
I used a number of email systems. I found Thunderbird’s display more user friendly, ergonomic, the lettering bolder and clearer. Yet Yahoo has a more professional approach and responds promptly. `could`I have the best of these two “worlds” ? Please!!! - ag
I can’t seem to get negative text-indent to work in Yahoo! when it seems to work most in other web clients. Was this part of the test?
Good news.
Hotmail, yahoo mail ... waiting for gmail ;)
That’s great to hear one of the mail teams being so responsive. It’s a shame that the Gmail team have stayed so quiet and it really reflects poorly on them IMHO.
Get it together Gmail.
@ Joshua:
Unfortunately that wasn’t part of our test. We wanted to ask for fundamental support to set a foundation for web standards. Once we see broad support for these fundamental properties, we hope to move into some additional requests.
@ Plopi and Alex Leonard:
We hear you. Google would benefit from considering our recommendations. Let’s hope they hear our calling.
Please add The Bat mail client to test.
I want to go back to yahoo mail classic.Your new yahoo mail does not work.I thouhgt it was my computer,but iv’e been to three different computers, and it still wont let me delete my messages.It only lets me read them.I only tried it because you told me there were more advanages to having the new yahoo mail instead of the classic. So if you could just tell me how to get back into the classic version.It would be very helpful cause the go back to classic mail button in the top right hand of the screen wont even let me choose it. it keeps telling me error on page
Very impressed with the response from Yahoo. Lets hope Google play catch up but i guess we’ll have to wait and see....
i had switched to yahoo beta, since than i cant compose new mail, cant reply or forward mails, neither can i switch again to yahoo mail classic.
I can only read mails that i recieve.
Waiting for positive & helping response.
Indeed, Yahoo! definately cares about the comunity…
It’s totally visible from the way Yahoo! products comunicate with their users… Take Flickr for instance. In my opinion, it has some of the greatest and smoothest features any web app should take as granted.
I’m not defending the “destkop likness” side of the question. I just believe that we, web designers, should be held responsible for creating another step on the way people see the web, using small and simple things that make everyone’s life easier and more fun.
Glad to hear about Yahoo! Hopefully Google will follow suit…
Yahoo needs to resist this buyout. Look at the debacle with windows vista. If I conducted my business the way microsoft is doing now I would be out of business.
Flickr is an amazing site. Thanks yahoo for taking care of us! I look forward to teh added functionality.
You know, I have had some problems with the new Yahoo mail. You have to wonder why the email providers (AOL also) insist on making us deal with slow-loading pages when all we need is something simple.
This is great. Thanks for everything you folks are doing, it is much appreciated!
I’ve been using Yahoo mail for years. They’ve always been very helpful and I do think they have the best interface and tools available in regards to the free online email clients.
I LOVE yahoo, however i’ve been having a problem with the mail. It has started to load really slow and returns an error message. That being said I will never use any other mail service, because Yahoo mail has always been reliable. I’m 100% positive that they will fix the issue! BTW thanks to yahoo’s CEO for not accepting microsofts offer. If microsoft gets their hands on Yahoo, they will ruin it just like they did with Vista.
I think this is fantastic and have used Yahoo for years. I have had my share of issues with the free mail however, but after I upgraded to the Plus version for a whopping $19.99 a year - this solved all my problems.
I love Yahoo! since 2001 i have an email account with them and they are getting better and better all the time.
Interesting information, thank you for sharing.
I’ve been using Yahoo mail for years
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Its important to have a support from The Bat. I use all: hotmail, yahoo, gmail - waiting for messages in web standards!
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Well, I think your post is a good reason to check out the yahoo mail at last.. Thanks for a useful info!
Interesting, I use gmail and hotmail. maybe it’s time 2 get started with yahoo mail as well!
Alright Yahoo MAil! Again I am very satisifed, although the amount of spam received is outrageous (not yahoo’s fault). ANyone heard about the new yahoo email doamins? Good idea!
i realy liked that guy’s opinion:
I LOVE yahoo, however i’ve been having a problem with the mail. It has started to load really slow and returns an error message. That being said I will never use any other mail service, because Yahoo mail has always been reliable. I’m 100% positive that they will fix the issue! BTW thanks to yahoo’s CEO for not accepting microsofts offer. If microsoft gets their hands on Yahoo, they will ruin it just like they did with Vista.
Thanks a lot Yahoo! Mail by offering 100% compliance of acid test. Email Developer network need same effort by Gmail and Outlook Teams
It will be a really nice day when there is more uniformity across all mail software, programs and browsers. I develop websites and created design, and find it very frustrating dealing with so many different
Uniformity in software, programs and browsers will never be a reality in my opinion. It is a good thing that Yahoo offers compliance now.
@ Online Psychic: I use both Gmail and Hotmail, just like you. Why should anyone want to start using a third email program?
Very impressed with the response from Yahoo. Lets hope Google play catch up but i guess we’ll have to wait and see....
I want to go back to yahoo mail classic.Your new yahoo mail does not work.I thouhgt it was my computer,but iv’e been to three different computers, and it still wont let me delete my messages.It only lets me read them.I only tried it because you told me there were more advanages to having the new yahoo mail instead of the classic. So if you could just tell me how to get back into the classic version.It would be very helpful cause the go back to classic mail button in the top right hand of the screen wont even let me choose it. it keeps telling me error on page
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I want to go back to yahoo mail classic.Your new yahoo mail does not work.I thouhgt it was my computer,but iv’e been to three different computers, and it still wont let me delete my messages.It only lets me read them
Thanks a lot Yahoo! Mail by offering 100% compliance of acid test. Email Developer network need same effort by Gmail and Outlook Teams
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It’s very interesting !
Nothing will prevent google from taking over this niche completely. They have the best UI, applications and let’s face it soon enough everyone will have an account so why not use it also for mail?!
Why not go back to yahoo mail classic? Or use GMAIL instead.
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Yahoo needs to start worrying about how their spam filter is eons behind gmail instead of these stupid small issues. Giving unlimited storage is nothing when the majority of that will be for spam.
Yahoo! Mail Classic lacks a powerful plain text editor
Digital signatures and message encryption are not supported
Yahoo! Mail Classic does not thread messages and lacks virtual folders
Here are few benefits as well.
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Meh, yahoo is got some serious catching up to do. Its technology is lacking.
Uniformity in software, programs and browsers will never be a reality in my opinion. It is a good thing that Yahoo offers compliance now.
@ Online Psychic: I use both Gmail and Hotmail, just like you. Why should anyone want to start using a third email program?
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Didn’t know people still used long hand
Very interesting information, great share
I much preferred Yahoo Classic. The new system strives to be too much and thus comes up short. Simplicity is better.
Nice post, interesting read.
Good post. Made a lot of sense!
Fabulous stuff.. Thanks a ton for putting this out.
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Great post. Yahoo is evolving well in face of the challenge of Google and AOL!
Great information, hope yahoo can improve their mail and compete with gmail.
Could you explain how you do the acid test? Then how did you discover that list-style-image was not working. Yahoo is a very professional company.
i prefer the long hand CSS. I guess in a way i just make things hard on my self that way. But, i can never remeber where exactly each property goes for the short hand. It is my own fault and things take a bit longe but atleast if i have to check the code i’ll know exactly what io am looking at.
i prefer long hand as well
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Finally Yahoo jumps on board with the email designers! I just created some high quality free html email templates that render properly in Yahoo and 15 other email clients.
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Yahoo! Mail Classic offers unlimited storage for free
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You can say what you want about yahoo but they have really put out a great product. Your article points to that fact. The primary draw to yahoo portals is their email. They really have to keep up with the trends or they will loose business. It truly is all about the email.
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I really like yahoo’s email service. i have been using it since the dawn of time. It will be sad to see them baught out by microsoft. Yahoo was a giant in its industry when microsoft was just a fledgling. Anyway, it is good to see that they are keeping up with important standards and reacting positively to criticism.
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When I send the acid test email to my yahoo account via a mail service, it displays all content <center>-ed.
I have mixed feelings about Yahoo’s email service. It has good and bad things about it. Although I am probably biased because I don’t like yahoo in general.
Thanks a lot..
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Yahoo mail has been in use from time immemorial. Before the mail services that are popular now came, yahoo has been in service and is popular. It has been trusted by all. Though users get new id’s from other services, yahoo is still popular!
The primary draw to yahoo portals is their email.
Well, the Yahoo! team again puts their best foot forward and shows us they care about our initiative. They have remedied this bug in both the “classic” and “new” versions of Yahoo! Mail, offering 100% compliance of our acid test. Our hats off to you, Yahoo! Mail.
I have been using my MSN Hotmail acoount for ages, and I still do. Some years I ago I started to use Gmail too. From that day untill today, I prefer Gmail. It’s just the better product.
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