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- psilvestri, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50I am NOT a fan of Yahoo, that being said, I may have to re-evaluate my thoughts on this one... Nicely done Yahoo, looks MUCH better.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26http://www.yahoo.com/newyahoo
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I still think it's too busy - why can't they simplify their front page more?
- tysonhy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19The new look kind of reminds me of my AOL days...LOL.
- emostar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14http://search.yahoo.com is nice.
- pornel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14They're blocking browsers like it was 1995 still.
I like two browsers - Safari and Opera, both are capable of handling Yahoos page, but Yahoo weblamers are not capable of understanding that. - peanutz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14It only supports IE and FF :(
But yeah it is cool
There is an official blog post too http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000304.html - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Are you people dumb?
This links to http://www.yahoo.com/preview and redirects to http://www.yahoo.com/?p=1147774734. It has nothing to do with the poster. Go paste the proper URL in yer address bar and see where it sends you...
As far as this being the guys only post... It might have something to do with the fact no one else seemed to have bothered to post it. I have had access to the new Yahoo page for the past 24 hours and was waiting for it to come up on Digg but it hasn't until now. I was considering posting this myself cuz I was shocked no one else had. - wstrucke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9who cares if the guy is a yahoo employee -- he posted something no one else did and its relevant.
- wstrucke, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13after reading the headline I thought maybe there was a chance they would go for "simpler" a-la google. no -- this is completely reminiscent of MSN or netscape.com.
way too much clutter (and advertising) - wastern, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8make it work with all browsers....you're yahoo for christ sake, in this day and age that it unacceptable
- platypibri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It really gets my goat when sites like this say we don't support "X" when there is really nothing to support. As someone pointed out above, I just went to the debug menu and told Safari "It's ok, just say you're IE6." Of course, the page rendered fine, because it's a fairly typical "Web 2.0" (whatever that means) layout. It looks nice, I might give it a try. But instead of blocking my browser, they could have just had a disclaimer that said "We don't even HAVE a Mac, so we only tested it on the bosses Toshiba Satellite, Your mileage may vary."
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Moreover, it only supports IE6 and FF 1.5.
Why not just give me a note that it may not display properly with my browser and let me have a run at it? - tweeto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Just go to http://yahoo.com ! ! !
Thats it. - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6im really tired of yahoo not supporting alternative browsers.
At least try to make your website standards compliant. - pornel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's amazing that they're bold enough to put browser-blocking site in 2006. Even MSN.com doesn't do such stupid things anymore.
- pixelnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Why does it not work in Camino? No digg :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks real nice, but waaaaaay too portal-like for my tastes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Navigating to a search engine is so 2004. It's far easier to search with the Google box built into Firefox.
- traherom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, too busy was my feeling too.
- wstrucke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"http://search.yahoo.com is nice."
if you switched the logo i would have thought that was google - kerin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The European Yahoo! sites don't block Safari, Chimera, Opera, etc:
http://uk.yahoo.com/preview - surpher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have not used Yahoo! in years because I didn't want to be bothered with the UI, everything seemed to be crammed together. But this UI I like. At least I like a lot better.
- pornel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But they're blocking just by name - even some Gecko browsers are blocked. They block Safari and Opera too - both pass Acid2 test.
- onerob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6If I were a Chinese user, I'd want more than a visual redesign. An ethical makeover wouldn't go amiss.
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12It's "peek".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i also do this, it's just way more efficient than having to load a page full of ads each time i check a different news source.
- nox327, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It says that he is a member since January 2006, so I don't think he made a profile 5 months ago, just for this. But you have a good point about the link that he provided. he could have put yahoo.com but the are some kind of numbers after the url. Would it be possible for them to do that to see how many visitors come from a specific site. So they want to measure how many diggers actually visit the yahoo site through that link.
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Doesn't even try work in IE7 or Opera. At least theres a screenshot.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I've always preferred Yahoo over anywhere else. I prefer a portal to a search engine only.
- WeThePeople, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I never visit the main page, I have bookmark take me right to my own my Yahoo page set up how I want. The main page just always seemed like a waste to me.
If you have yahoo mail, just set up your my yahoo page to be the main page with as little or as much as you want. You can add all your own RSS feeds, scores, movies, TV, cartoons, stocks, mail etc. I think I have over 50 rss feeds on 3 pages, set up like a newspaper. - meatypuffs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Nice, that's slick. Now I just wish they'd finalize the current Yahoo Mail Beta and open that up too.
- richbradshaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4no, that link is just what http://www.yahoo.com/preview resolves to... try it. I thought that as well.
- iBeeNORM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Looks like AOL.com to me
- ScootUnder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It allows them to clutter their page even more, with it looking a little less cluttered
-scooter - aptmunich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah, it's weird they won't support camino, since it basically renders exactly the same as firefox 1.5...
But if you spoof the browser ID with caminotools it looks fine. - wrinkles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OK, I see the option to switch to narrow layout. Nice touch.
- xtremesniper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5How does the whole China incident have anything to do with how the new Yahoo! page is usable and nice? Get over it.
- unfinity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I stopped using Yahoo when they started adding so much clutter it made my eyes bleed. This design does nothing to change that.
- marcushellberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too bad it doesn't fit on a 1024x768 screen without side scrolling..
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Big blinking flash ads trying to sell me ***** I dont need. That is my favorite feature I look for in a homepage. What would I do with my time if I didn't have major corporations convincing me that I need to buy their *****?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Isn't a boycott a bit drastic? The message clearly says they are working to make it better for more browsers. You really can't blame them for developing with the browsers that over 90% of their users are visiting with. Try changing your user agent if you need the site to load, maybe help with bug reports. But yeah, I think I do understand your original point, that Yahoo is a major website that shouldn't be using the browser excuse.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Wow, that is pretty hot... now if Yahoo gave you AJAX capabilities to be able to turn off some of the crap they have on the homepage and be able to go back to just a search box... = big competition toward Google.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yahoo! => Safari Haters
"Thanks for your interest in the sneak preview of the new Yahoo! home page. Unfortunately, you're using a browser we don't support today". - aptmunich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Whats unacceptable is sites have to "make it work in all browsers" if all browsers followed the god damn standards it would work in all browsers."
Well, it's strange they support the one browser that butchers more web standards than all the others combined...
Basically what they are saying is:
"We've only tried it on these 2, so screw everyone else until we find the time to try some others... " - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://search.yahoo.com/ is what you want. It's the same as google though, you might as well just stick with google.
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks niced, but fixed-width is lame. Someone hit Yahoo with a clue-stick: it's 2006, and people not only have monitors of all sorts of different sizes, but view the web on devices other than computers.
We need more pages that dynamically resize to the browser window. - tijs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why not put everything on the frontpage? There's still quite a few pixels left.
- JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i like it. now if there is a launchcast tab, a del.icio and a flickr tab as well, i would set this as my home page
so yahoo delivers my news, my online pruchases, my email and IM, my finance, my job searches, the car i will buy, my travels. it would also answer my important questions with yahoo answers
well... come to think of it, yahoo would OWN me....i am sticking to blank page as my home page !!! - angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Try Netvibes.com ....I used Yahoo's home page for years, until last year. Netvibes is my home page on all four of my computers.
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