Yahoo has a Flex API for Yahoo Maps, is it time for e-mail?

Posted on October 2, 2006 | 3 comments

Yahoo just announced they will be given away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail. The Yahoo team has already done a good job at creating a nice Flex API for their Yahoo Maps (made for Flex 1.5). Will we see an internal or external Flex 2 API for Yahoo Mail. I saw a Flex 1.5 mail sample application on IFBIN a while back (I think last year). I also read posts today where people are using sockets in Flex/AS3 to connect to SVN directly or MySQL (more powerful with Apollo as the delivery but still interesting). The outer fringes are just starting to be pushed apart with Flex and AS3 tools.

The other interesting thing about the announcement is that it was a day before “Yahoo Hack Day”. See some pictures of the event here. It seems some people from Adobe attended the festivities, Ted Patrick and Mike Chambers.

All in all this is a very interesting time to be a Flex developer. Forget Yahoo and it’s a hack day, with Flex every day is a good day. ;)

Note: my original title was misleading if you are coming from an aggregator that keeps old titles you might see a difference in the post title.

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  • http://www.flash-dev.com Dustin Andrew

    Here is an example I made to show how to get the current Yahoo! Maps Flash API to work in Flex 2 / AS3.

    http://codycodingcowboy.cahlan.com/2006/09/yahoo-maps-in-flex-2-as3.html

  • http://www.mikebritton.com Mike Britton

    Giving away the code is nice, but exposing web services and building an email API for developers to tap into would be better. I’d make a Flex client for it in a heartbeat if it were possible to recreate Yahoo Mail or Gmail through officially supported webservices.

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    I was thinking something along the same lines after writing the post. Why do they need to open up the the code when a decent API would have been just fine. Depending on the code base what good will it be? we’ll we have to write our own API on top of it?