Yahoo! Mail
STATUS: Solid Support screenshot
Summary: Yahoo! Mail is a model webmail client, supporting nearly everything on our list and a whole lot more. We can only hope that other webmail-client developers will learn from the support Yahoo! Mail offers without compromising security, speed or features. Last updated: 28 November 2007
Full Support
- Background-image
- Background-position
- Background-position a:hover
- Border
- Color/background-color
- Descendant-selectors
- Float/clear
- Font family/size/weight/style
- Font-family names with quotes
- Font inheritance
- Line-height
- Margin
- Padding
- Varying link-colors
- Width/height
Partial/No Support (Cosmetic):
Recommendations for Improvement
Normal Priority recommendations
While not absolutely critical, we would like to see Yahoo! improve Yahoo! Mail to support the following CSS properties:
List-style-image: A design can be enhanced by dressing up bullets in a UL. The two most popular methods for making this happen are the default list-style-image and an alternate, more controllable method using background-image and padding. When list-style-image is defined and then not supported, the degradation is minor in that a default bullet is displayed. However, it’s a modest property which, when supported, can greatly enhance a visual design.
Version History
- 15 Feb 2008
- Working with the ESP team, Yahoo! have updated Yahoo! Mail to support the
list-style-imageproperty, making them 100% compliant with our acid test. Read the full details in the blog. - 28 Nov 2007
- Initial recommendations added
Noticed any differences?
If you've used Yahoo! Mail recently and noticed any results that might differ from our findings, we'd .
Work for Yahoo!?
We'd love to work with you in any capacity to help Yahoo! Mail embrace these recommendations. and tell us how we can help.