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AJaX Lipstick On Browser-Based UI Pig

A little out of context, but a good quote.

Eric Burke: The new Yahoo mail offers drag and drop, loads the message pane in a thread, and looks more like a desktop app than any web app I’ve ever seen. But compared to a native app like Outlook, there is simply no comparison. Lipstick on a Pig seems an apt metaphor. (AJAX is the lipstick, browser-based UIs are the pig).

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on December 18, 2005 11:03:52 PM CST #


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Comment from Stanley George on December 19, 2005 11:47:32 AM CST #
The new Yahoo mail beta is flash based not AJAX.
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Comment from Raphael on December 20, 2005 1:18:45 PM CST #
I am using Yahoo Beta and it is NOT flash based. It's AJAX. When using it I barely notice the difference between it and Outlook. The only thing I am missing is Ctrl-Z to undo moving a message to a folder.

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