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Eric Burke: The new Yahoo mail offers drag and drop, loads the message pane in a thread, and looks more like a desktop app than any web app I’ve ever seen. But compared to a native app like Outlook, there is simply no comparison. Lipstick on a Pig seems an apt metaphor. (AJAX is the lipstick, browser-based UIs are the pig).