Yahoo Japan Building Flex Version of Yahoo Mail
Wed, 2007-11-07 10:13 — mikepotter
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Ryan Stewart has the scoop that the Yahoo Japan team announced at Adobe MAX in Japan that they were building a new Yahoo Mail client in Flex. The current Yahoo Mail application, used by Yahoo in the US and Canada (at least, I presume other countries as well), is written in Ajax. I'm not 100% sure, but I imagine some of the technology for that application comes from Yahoo's acquisition of Zimbra.
The new mail application isn't done yet, but it is in progress. And there's no information that suggests that the existing Ajax mail client will be replaced with this Flex application for the rest of the world. Still, its a great sign when Yahoo and Google start using Flex for their applications. It shouldn't surprise us though. Even Yahoo's Ajax evangelist said that Flex applications were faster to develop than Ajax applications.
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I'm attending, presenting or interested in the following conferences:
- Adobe MAX in San Francisco, Nov 16 - 19, 2008
- Adobe MAX Europe in Milan, Dec 1 - 4, 2008
I presented at the following conferences:
- Toronto Flex Camp 2 - May 15, 2008 (Slides)
- Flex Camp in Toronto, Nov 15 (Slides)
- DC PHP Conference in Washington, Nov 7 - 9 (Slides, Sample Files)
- Adobe MAX Europe in Barcelona, Spain, Oct 15 - 18 (Sample Files)
- PHP Works Conference in Atlanta, Sep 13 - 14
- Online e-Seminar, PHP and Flex, July 28 (Slides, Sample Files)
- Online e-Seminar, June 28 (Slides, Sample Code)
- AjaxWorldExpo in New York, Mar 19 - 21 (Slides)
- PHP Conference in Montreal, Mar 14 - 16 (Slides)
- PHP Conference in Vancouver, Feb 12 - 13 (Slides)
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Html support
In order to create a good flex-based webmail you need good html support. Flex2 does not, but I understand flex3 will.... what is the status of html support in flex3?
best of Luck to Japan Yahoo Mail
The last few days has been annoying for me as Yahoo mail was creating a lot of problems. I thought it was my browser or connectivity that was causing. Now I know that- it s based on Ajax and hope the Japanese have a different experience with the all conquering Adobe FLEX.
Best of luck.