On Wednesday 09 July 2003 17:51, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jesse Guardiani writes:
> >>  You need to verify if you now need
> >> to make any changes to a second patch you posted later.
> >
> > See attached for new patch.
> >
> > However, please take a look at this thread first and let me know if you
> > like the idea behind the patch, or if you would rather have everyone
> > implement this sort of thing in stylesheets:
> >
> > http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.mail.sqwebmail&root=%3C20
> >0307070953.12795.jesse%40wingnet.net%3E
>
> Well, either way you're going to have to change the HTML templates.  And
> having this patch around still won't prevent you from using a stylesheet,
> if that's what you want to do.


No, I think you might be missing the point of the patch. It's not designed to
eliminate stylesheets (they're a Good Thing), but rather it's designed to allow
templates to be more "pluggable".

With this patch, I can drop my template into any two directories (one for html, one
for images), set the environ variables SQWEBMAIL_TEMPLATEDIR & SQWEBMAIL_IMAGEURL
appropriately, and the template automatically works.

Otherwise I'll have the additional step of modifying any background image
locations in the stylesheet on a per-template basis for each template install.

Does that make sense?

Do you think it's valuable functionality? I do because it will make installing 
alternate
or additional templates much easier.

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