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Ultimately, Does it even matter if a design looks slightly worse in an older browser?
It's not as though a white page is going to appear for them and they can't use the site.

People don't want to develop for these versions of IE because it's a pain, possibly requiring extra workarounds that every ...

A minor thing really, but since we're on the topic of design/theme update, couldn't the phpBB logo be tweaked ever so slightly too to look a bit cleaner and inline with current trends? I believe dropping the shadows/highlights creates the cleaner look.

When you glance at Hanakin's proposed style ...

Shouldn't data be sent to views as variables instead of printing strings from controllers?

A possible good example is something like: $user->avatar_img_url denoting the url for a avatar.
These could be available to a theme developer to call directly within a template file.

I mean I get that by ...

Using a pre-processor like sass would be advantageous during development due to the fact you can work on separate files for each section, keeping it much more organised, especially with version control etc.

also imo, the final theme should possibly have both LESS and SCSS available to give a ...

I've been using Laravel (a somewhat new mvc framework) recently to build some PHP applications, and it's got this templating system part of it that I personally find quite effective. I'll admit, I've not really looked into twig yet, sorry if it already does the same thing.

You make a master file ...

I don't think I'd create a PHP app without a framework anymore. PHP has a bunch of design flaws which you've got to take extra care, because PHP won't bat an eyelid in contrast to other languages. I feel that PHP almost encourages people just starting out to write really bad inefficient code but it ...