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You have my vote. ++1
I would love the possibility to sprite all of these icons as they should be.

QA = Quality Assurance

Benefits
Same as you or I get now I assume.

Then why not just return null; ?

At the same time, wouldn't t be better to return early.

Eg.
/**
* @param string $str
* @return null|string
*/
function test_returns($str = '')
{

if(!$str)
{
return null;
}
else
{
return $str;
}
}

Instead of
/**
* @param string $str
* @return null ...

I didn't see anything in here about return always returning something.
So I am bringing it up.

The old code base has a lot of return; in it.
It would be better if it always returned something return true;

Last week I was working on something in phpBB3 and started looking through the core and structure.
Once I was done with the project I was working on I started a fresh copy and went to it with changes that have been in the back of my mind for a while.

I was working on a master branch copy as I didn ...

I'm sure this is nothing new and is probably even in the plan already. These are just my thoughts.

I've been playing with something so I can demonstrate how I think the OOP phpBB as far as displaying and hooking into those displays.
By displaying I mean anything from posts, to profiles, to profile ...

If this is not going to be in the style itself then there needs a way to over write it from the style, so that say, if your version is not what I want I can over ride it and phpBB's is not loaded.
Keep that in mind please.

As discussed here http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=32880 CSS Sprites

Extending on it a bit
This is a must, the current load speed for the index and other pages with icons would be greatly improved.
For instance here there are 28 http requests that could easily be
1 CSS file
1 ...

On the WordPress note, their plug-ins do not go through any kind of validation like phpBB Mod teams do.
Their requirements are very basic at best, the readme file and the comment at the top of the main plug-in file which is what the Admin Plug-in page shows for info about the plug-in itself. The ...

As a note, if not mentioned, almost all recent smart phone browsers have HTML browser support.
Most include CSS3 support with exception of Windows mobile of coarse, unless the user uses an alternative browser which is smart from the word Go!

Anyway, CSS3 support minimizes the need for scripts etc ...