Re: [school-core] Re: woud like to setup a free newsletter service for you guys

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Well, of course it won't work with pine, etc. It won't work with (my copy at 
least) of Konqueror because I haven't tried to install flash and audio 
properly on my linux boxes (and frankly I don't care to have a multimedia 
laptop). But I tried audioboomerang.com on my wife's win 98 and it _is_ 
impressive. It comes down to developing the skill of producing these 
presentations, though. Maybe it's a skill one or two in the group would like 
to get good at. I'll give it a look -- maybe schoolforge members could flash 
it up a bit? The offer was made sincerely so I will check it out initially and 
forward whatever I learn. I am not likely to be the one with the time though 
... I bet Jeff Elkner's students might like to become producers of open source 
micro documentaries, though.

David
Quoting Michael Viron <mviron@findaschool.org>:

> Be careful with HTML vs text, as some e-mail clients either don't render
> HTML at all (pine, mutt, and so forth), or don't render it very well
> (Eudora and so forth).
> 
> If you need to have it in tables, you'd be better off pulling it from a db
> and having it on the web, putting some highlights into the newsletter, and
> providing a link to the schedule if they are interested beyond what they
> read in the newsletter.
> 
> By the way, I keep getting javascript errors when I look at your site in
> either IE 6 (unfortunately this laptop is running windows atm, since I use
> stuff like Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Flash, and Dreamweaver quite
> regularly) or Netscape 6 -- not sure exactly what the problem is, but you
> may want to take a look at it.
> 
> Michael
> 
> --
> Michael Viron
> Project Manager / Primary Developer / Schoolforge Representative
> General Education Online
> Database Administrator / Web Statistician / Random Projects
> Simple End User Linux
> 
> At 05:07 AM 6/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >hello,
> >
> >we'd like to run our broadcast schedule in the newsletter.
> >it's straight up html tables.
> >
> >mike eschman, etc...
> >"Not just an afterthought ...
> >http://www.etc-edu.com formerly http://www.engima.com
> >
> >
> 
> 


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