HTML5 Yahoo Mail ‘Right at Home’ on iPad

Yahoo! is joining the rest of the industry in supporting HTML5 with its mobile web mail for iOS devices, noting optimizations for “the gorgeous large screen of the iPad,” and local caching capabilities.

“Here at Yahoo! we’re always striving to give our users the best possible communications experience across all the devices they use,” begins a post at the Yahoo! Mail Blog.

“In recent months we’ve released some great new Yahoo! Mail products for mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod touch and Android phones. Now we are setting our sights on the iPad,” the Sunnyvale, California-based provider of Internet services reveals.

“If you’ve used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you’ll feel right at home,” Yahoo! claims.

In addition to keeping all the elements lauded by users worldwide, the company included optimizations for the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen.

The end result is a faster and more reliable experience, says Yahoo!, with local caching capabilities, Full Search to find and organize your messages, personal folders and Smart Folders and more.

Users will be able to view rich photo attachments in their full form, thanks to these iPad-specific enhancements.

They can also be viewed as previews directly in the inbox view, Yahoo! notes.

A dual-pane view is also available “to make reading and organizing a breeze.”

“The new Yahoo! Mail experience will be available globally to anyone who has an iPad,” the post reads on.

“So if you do have one, simply open up Safari and head on over to http://mail.yahoo.com to try it for yourself,” Yahoo! instructs.

The company promises that iPad owners are in for more exciting features, outlining that “this is just the first version,” and that Yahoo! will be “constantly iterating to add new features, improve performance, and make Yahoo! Mail for iPad the best it can possibly be.”