From: Xavier de P. <xav...@ub...> - 2010-12-21 16:49:56
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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@enmore 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:xav...@ub...] > 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, no...@ti... 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: >> http://doc.tiki.org/tiki-user_watches.php?id=1287 >> >> *********************************************************** >> 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)) >> >> > > > > _____ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1170 / Virus Database: 426/3326 - Release Date: 12/19/10 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Lotusphere 2011 > Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how > to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment > to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d > _______________________________________________ > TikiWiki-devel mailing list > Tik...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel > |