Yahoo! Mail Beta screen real estate
If you’re using the Yahoo! Mail Beta and you don’t feel like you can see everything, check your resolution. The beta was designed with 1024×768 resolution (1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall) screens in mind. So if you’re running 800×600, you’ll get something that looks like this screenshot. It’s not impossible to use, but it’s definitely more cramped than it needs to be.
It may be that you have a smaller monitor, but even on 17 inch monitors you should be able to safely up your resolution to 1024×768 without making fonts too small to read. Even my little 12 inch laptop monitor can push 1400×1050 without causing me to squint.
Of course, if you have sight issues that force you to use a lower resolution and a large browser font, by all means send us some feedback letting us know. I’m not sure how much accessibility work has been done by the design team so far, but I’m sure they’d value any feedback that tells them they’re excluding a group of people from being able to use the beta.
December 6th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
i want to visit and use.
December 6th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
me too!
December 6th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Then go here and submit an entry to be included in the beta. No guarantee you’ll get in, but it’s currently your only option.
December 11th, 2005 at 3:29 am
i want to use
December 17th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
HI Ryan!
I finally got my Yahoo Beta late this week. Love it! It’s very ‘outlooky’. Anyway, congrats!
I do have a question though. What happened to the DomainKeys message that used to be under the FROM? I’m working to implement DK on our outbound email and want to make sure this continues to be a good use of my time and our resources.
thanks,
Tracy
December 17th, 2005 at 11:04 pm
We’re working on it, Tracy. DomainKeys is definitely a good use of your time and resources.
December 18th, 2005 at 11:44 am
Hey Ryan,
Thanks for commenting on my blog entry, thought I’d return the favor.
I think it makes sense that the screen was optimized for 10×7 given the popularity of that display resolution, however, the lack of an ability to change font size (or at least scale with the browser view | text size settings) is a real downer for those of us above that. I run at 1600×1200 and it’s really, really small. Sounds like there’s no way this will change. Do you concur?
Also, on the reverse sorting issue, I just got back an email response with the standard “We have investigated the issue you described in your email and checked your account against our servers, yet unfortunately we were unable to find anything out of the ordinary.” Guess that makes sense if it’s a known issue, LOL.
I’m liking the beta more and more, finding new features (the listings you get when you search are cool, but I hope the ‘advanced options’ dialog comes back soon, I use that a LOT.)
Thanks,
-kj-
December 18th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Kevin, I run 1600×1200 on a 20″ LCD and I don’t have any problems reading text in the beta. That’s just me, though. I know other people have problems with smaller text. One thing you can do is change the browser font size. This should make the text a little bigger (in Firefox I use the Ctrl key with the mouse wheel to change font size). Unfortunately, the beta wasn’t built with this in mind, so if you increase the font size too much you’ll see stuff run together. I think the new Windows Live Mail handles this a lot better. You can resize the text as much as you want and they reflow the interface nicely. I think this is one of those usability issues that our frontend team will have to tackle at some point. Otherwise bind people (people with legally bind eyesight, not people who are completely bind) won’t be able to make the text big enough to see.
Yeah, the reverse sorting issue was a bug. It was actually MY bug. That’s how I know it’s a known issue and that a fix has been submitted.
We just need to get that fix pushed out.
I know options will be moved over to the beta, I just don’t know when. I work on the back end team, so I don’t always know what the front end guys are up to.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
my yahoo window is now way too wide and the resolution is set at the 1024×768 — this problem is on all the monitors though despite monitor size and resolution–
is this a problem with the meta mail???? why suddenly now??????? hate it!
thanks, j