Microsoft is slowly releasing a new version?Windows Live Hotmail?this week. Some users can already recieved the update while others have not. Here are some useful links to articles related to the {slow} release of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3.?
ReadWriteWeb -?Microsoft Updates Hotmail: Faster Interface and More Storage
LiveSide -?Hotmail spotted in the wild
Messenger Stuff -?Wave 3: Windows Live Hotmail
SuperSite Blog -?New Windows Live Hotmail arrives?
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It’s here, and it’s a ****ing train wreck. Completely broken in Opera and Safari, over the top use of bloated badly written AJAX that adds zero functionality while making EVERYTHING take forever, has zero degredation for those of us who don’t want everything scripted…
It appears to have been written by a untrained rhesis monkey on crack, since at 168 validation errors they do not have HTML, they have gibberish – it shouldn’t even work in IE much less anywhere else. Take the inbox, almost 120k of data transmitted, almost half that the HTML file, for a mere 2k of actual user data?!?
My more detailed analysis can be found here:
http://my.opera.com/deathshadow/blog/2008/11/05/rubbish-code-from-alleged-professionals