Also: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

What a surprise?  Outlook doesn't support background images!  IDK if that 
influences your design though.

But if it were me I would try using an absolutely positioned image and put your 
content in a z-index above it.

On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, Apple Mail does, and so do the other clients I've tested.
> 
> Any idea why my resources are so screwy?
> 
> 
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Johnny Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ken,
>> 
>> I believe most mail clients don't support CSS background images.
>> 
>> Aloha,
>> Mr. Johnny Miller
>> Web Development Manager
>> Kahalawai Media Company
>> Lahaina, HI 96761
>> tel: (808) 661-7962 | mobile: (808) 283-0791
>> website | e-mail     
>> 
>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> OK - still driving me crazy.
>>> 
>>> If I ask WOResourceManager for the url, I get this:
>>> 
>>> /WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>> 
>>> but that path doesn't work.  If I put the machine in front:
>>> 
>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>> 
>>> still wrong.  I need to add Contents after the woa:
>>> 
>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>> 
>>> THAT URL works.
>>> 
>>> So, do I have something configured wrong somewhere?  
>>> 
>>> If I put the image in a WOImage, I get this ing src:
>>> 
>>>             <img 
>>> src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png"
>>>  width="800" height="600" />
>>> 
>>> I can only assume this happens on a local machine, even though I have 
>>> direct connect turned OFF and I'm definitely running everything through 
>>> Apache.
>>> 
>>> Ken
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Or how to do it with WO, which I wrote from one of your emails :-)
>>>> 
>>>> http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOCOM/Emails
>>>> 
>>>> Problem:
>>>> Your HTML email have images that you want to display inline.
>>>> 
>>>> Solution:
>>>> If you have a WebObjects Component and you want to send inline images with 
>>>> the component, you have to make use of a trick, that was mentioned in 
>>>> Fabian Peters mail on the Wonder Discussion mailinglist on 6 june 2009.
>>>> 
>>>> First of all, in the Component HTML one includes something like this:
>>>> <img src="cid:image0" alt="Logo" />
>>>> 
>>>> The code that accompanies this cid:image0 is:
>>>> URL logoURL = 
>>>> myApp().resourceManager().pathURLForResourceNamed("logo.png", null, null);
>>>> File logo = new File(logoURL.toURI());
>>>> ERMailAttachment imageLogo = new 
>>>> ERMailFileAttachment("logo.png","<image0>",logo);
>>>> 
>>>> Note that the file "logo.png" has to be included in the Resources folder 
>>>> of you WebObjects project.
>>>> The "cid:image0" is linked to the <image0> in the ImageAttachment.
>>>> 
>>>>> Or if you want to include the image in the mail, you'll have to reference 
>>>>> it by CID: <img src="cid:image0" width="274" height="61" alt="Logo" />
>>>>> See 
>>>>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4312687/how-to-embed-images-in-email>
>>>>> I've never used this for CSS background images though.
>>>>> Fabian
>>>>> Am 26.06.2013 um 17:32 schrieb James Cicenia:
>>>>>> The image has to be public. So you could just store a url to the public 
>>>>>> image.
>>>>>> Otherwise:
>>>>>>> /Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>> does look correct. It is the actual path to the image which the server 
>>>>>> needs to server it up.
>>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Gang,
>>>>>>> This is driving me nuts so hopefully someone has an easy answer.
>>>>>>> In a component I'm using with ERMailDeliveryHTML I want to grab a 
>>>>>>> background image for the email:
>>>>>>> body
>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>> background-image:url(<webobject name="BackgroundURL"/>);
>>>>>>> background-color:#ffffff;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> BackgroundURL : WOString {
>>>>>>>         value = backgroundURL;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>    public String backgroundURL() {
>>>>>>>         return 
>>>>>>> WOApplication.application().resourceManager().urlForResourceNamed("emailBackground.png",
>>>>>>>  null, null, null);
>>>>>>>    }
>>>>>>> I've tried everything including using a method to build the URL by 
>>>>>>> asking WOResourceManager for the URL for the resource.
>>>>>>> If I put the image in a WOImage to try and steal the URL, this is what 
>>>>>>> I get:
>>>>>>>                 <img 
>>>>>>> src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png"
>>>>>>>  width="800" height="600" />
>>>>>>> even though I'm not using direct connect, which is confusing to me.
>>>>>>> Is this just because I want to make this work in Development?
>>>>>>> Thanks for any thoughts!  It was great to see many of you this past 
>>>>>>> weekend and I hope to see you next year!
>>>>>>> Ken
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