Email on the web: More flashy, more powerful

The new ' drag-and-drop ' function makes it easier to organize your email messages in Yahoo Mail as well as many other e-mail applications based on AJAX technology. .

This is also the purpose of the leading web-based e-mail service providers such as Microsoft and Yahoo that want to make web-based e-mail services more and more powerful with features to help translate. This case has an increasingly similar user interface to e-mail browsing applications on the desktop.

In this article, we would like to take a look at the new web-based e-mail services - most of which are still in the testing process - namely Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail with a new person in the mail field. electronic on the web - Zimbra, an open source web-based email application.

It can be seen that all of the above e-mail service applications are using a technique that is becoming more and more popular, AJAX helps to improve the features and quality of services.

AJAX technology applications will make these services preloaded and updated directly on the display page. So every time a user opens an e-mail they can immediately see the content of the letter rather than having to wait until the site is downloaded. Or when the user wants to delete an e-mail, the user immediately sees that message has been deleted but while the request to delete the message is still being processed on the server. These are the outstanding features that AJAX brings

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail has added a number of new features that make its service more accessible and easy to use as desktop email browsing applications that allow the use of hot keys and use. function keys and to select multiple emails at the same time. Or you can use the key to quickly browse your Inbox. Although still in the process of testing, Yahoo Mail has really become powerful with the interface divided into 3 different frames quite similar to Microsoft's Outlook Express application or Thunderbird of Mozilla.

In addition, Yahoo Mail has another handy feature like many other web browsers that allow users to open multiple emails simultaneously in a window and can switch back and forth in one way. Quickly no waiting for downloading another page.

The Yahoo Mail search feature has also been improved to allow searching both for attachments, searching for emails and displaying clear text that Yahoo Mail finds in search keywords. there.

Windows Live Mail

Microsoft's Windows Live Mail has a method that works like an Outlook application in your browser with shortcut keys or right-click context menus. If the user is not really familiar with desktop browsing applications, Windows Live Mail - in fact a completely new version of Hotmail rather than a completely new web mail - will probably very suitable for you.

Like Yahoo Mail, Live Mail allows you to ' drag-and-drop ' emails and activate the right-click context menu to print, send mail to others (forward) or reply to messages without having to open that letter. Live Mail focuses on tools that allow users to add emotional smileys (emoticons) and format their email more beautifully as well as calendar application integration, strong anti-spam and phishing than.

Zimbra

Zimbra's open-source web-based e-mail service, though not yet well-thought out in terms of the interface and minor bugs in this test version, is a very good search and anti-virus feature. good. Zimbra's calendar feature is also quite impressive, users only need to hover on a certain day to know their schedule of that day.

But Zimbra's true strength lies in the communication server, allowing companies to integrate their databases into it so that users can transfer to any email with a serial number. any in that database.

Zimbra does not currently offer personal email accounts provided only to businesses, but some broadband service providers like Speakeasy intend to apply Zimbra.