Ok, thanks for the information Geoff, again.
At the site where we are using newsletters, we are using a jqui variant,
so that we seem to be covered.
So I leave as is, right now (I'm getting late for the other tiki-related
work, so that I cannot work more on this newsletter thing right now)
Cheers
Xavi
On 20/12/10 16:29, geoff@... wrote:
> Hi Xavi - re your various points:
>
> 1. When I first posted to the devel list to 'announce' these changes (4th
> Dec) I did suggest that:
> " Going forward it would probably make sense to add an appropriate 'basic'
> newsletter.css file to each of the standard themes so that the 'slim'
> behaviour is the default. "
>
> I haven't done this myself since I don't really use any of the standard
> themes - so I thought it best to leave it to folk that actually use them.
>
> If a theme specific newsletter.css doesn't exist the system defaults to the
> pre 6.1 behaviour. I have also posted more detailed 'doc' content at
> http://doc.tiki.org/Newsletter+Admin#Styling_an_HTML_Newsletter
>
> 2. I don't think there is a 'universal' .css since even the most basic would
> want to define fonts for wikitext and h1,h2 etc - which are going to be
> theme specific.
>
> 3. I do however feel quite strongly that the system should use a theme
> specific newsletter.css if it exists and logically it should be in the
> style/yourtheme/ folder just as we currently have the various theme specific
> IE variants there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier de Pedro [mailto:xavier.depedro@...]
> Sent: 20 December 2010 11:07
> To: developers, Tikiwiki
> Subject: Re: [Tiki-devel] Wiki page Newsletters changed by Geoff Brickell
>
> Hi Geoff& Jonny:
>
> First of all, thanks again for your work (with jonny, and whoever else
> participated) creating this newsletter.css approach, etc.
>
> Once that is said, a few questions:
>
> (1) shouldn't we add some default newsletter.css for all themes, overridable
> on a by theme basis (whenever authors or maintainers of a theme need to
> change/customize that default one?)
>
> (2) Is the newsletter.css under fivealive (or jqui) a good candidate for
> such generic& by default small css file for newsletters?
>
> (3) Should this be placed under ./layout/newsletter.css instead?
>
> Opinions?
>
> Xavi
>
>
> On 04/12/10 09:36, noc@... wrote:
>> The page Newsletters was changed by Geoff Brickell at 08:36 UTC
>>
>> You can view the page by following this link:
>>
>> http://doc.tiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Newsletters
>>
>> You can view a diff back to the previous version by following this link:
>> http://doc.tiki.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Newsletters
> <http://doc.tiki.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Newsletters&compare=1&ol>
> &compare=1&ol
>> dver=17&newver=18
>>
>> If you don't want to receive these notifications follow this link:
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>>
>> ***********************************************************
>> The changes in this version follow below, followed after by the current
> full page text.
>> ***********************************************************
>>
>>
>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>> @@ -Lines: 10-13 changed to +Lines: 10-14 @@
>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>> * Groups can be subscribed to newsletters (including embedded groups)
>> * Since ((Tiki6)) you can now also 'subscribe' a Wiki page so that its
> contents, whatever it is at the time, can be used to define emails to which
> an individual Newsletter Edition is sent.
>> + * From Tiki 6.1 the quantity of 'styling' information embedded
>> + within an HTML formatted newsletter can be controlled by the use of
>> + a dedicated css file. If newsletter.css exists in the
>> + /styles/yourtheme/ folder, this css file is used to format the
>> + newsletter. If it does not exist the styling information is derived
>> + from the full theme used by the site - but it should be noted that
>> + this can result in an overly large email file
>> * Since ((Tiki6)), you can automatically send newsletters with a
> cron/batch job based on some wiki page template with plugins (upcoming
> events, last posts, new items, ...).
>> * ((PluginSubscribeNewsletter))
>>
>>
>
>
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