The Webmail UI of Yahoo Mail has problems - again

It seems Yahoo is back to the UI introduced a few days ago, which is useless in a not just read-only mode on a PDA.

Therefore, do consider switching entirely to using the Wap version or POP3 as I've explained in the linked blog entries.

If you, however, still plan to stick with the webmail version, you have the following choices:

- the Thunderhawk browser - it's the only PPC browser that's working with Yahoo Mail unless you use a compression service introduced below.

Yahoo Mail, as already explained in the Yahoo Mail-related blog entries posted in the last few days, won't work with other alternative browsers like Netfront/Minimo - Netfront will only allow for deleting mail (PIE can't even delete them) but not replying to them/forwarding them and Minimo will hust crash upon logging in.

An example screenshot of Thunderhawk being able to reply to mail messages:

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- Web-based compression/content ripper services (see chapter 3, "Web-based compression/content ripper services", in my bandwidth saving-related article linked from here). I've tested Yahoo Mail with the following services:

1. Skweezer: Yahoo Mail notices you don't have JavaScript support and, therefore, presents you the following dialog, where you need to click "Switch back to the old version":

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2. MobileLeap 2.10: this works too. As opposed to Skweezer, it doesn't let you explicitly choose the downgraded version. It, however, shows to other pages where you only need to click the links (see this and this screenshot; on the latter page, you need to click the " CONTINUE OVER PROXIED SSL" button), should just be clicked.

I haven't tested other online compression services; as the two tested are the best ones, I think they'll suffice.

EDIT (09/01/2006): please note that the latest, TP 1.03 version of NetFront 3.3 is already able to use Yahoo Mail. Please read this blog post for more info.