My Broken Yahoo
I’ve used a My.Yahoo! page as my default home page for about a decade. There’s nothing particularly special about it, just a few news feeds, weather and stocks. Yahoo! recently started a beta redesign of the My.Yahoo system, and in the process they broke the old one. None of the content on the old page is updating now.
The new design feels clunky, but then Google’s portal thingie feels slapdash. Take your pick. Getting used to this is going to take a while, if I don’t just go roll my own with MooTools…
Poking around the new pages with FireBug (hands down the greatest browser add-on and web development tool ever, really) I found some strange stuff in the My.Yahoo page. Can someone explain why this seemingly random 1.2mb image is being sent? Feivel? Huh? As far as I could tell, it’s not random, but the query string prevents caching. The only thing I can think of is some sort of bandwidth test.
Whatever it was, before I could publish this the image stopped being sent. Good thing I saved a copy. I guess.
This thing should totally be on a geek shirt.
Hello Joe
I have copied your JavaScript for setting up an email link that will discourage spam, and would like to place a link on both my websites (in addition to the above, http://www.head-to-toe-aloe.co.uk) to yours, so that your hard work can benefit others.
Do you have a standard link to use, or shall I write my own?
Thanks and kind regards,
Sally
I noticed that your problem was posted on ->
Mar 28, 2007 1:00 am
My broken MyYahoo comes up with a blank page. I can get to the general Yahoo and yahoo email but not my personalize page
Started today May 12,2007 Hope it’s not just me!
It’s not just you. my.yahoo.com has been broken on and off for the past couple of days.