<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">> From: Chip Bennett <</span></font><a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">chip@chipbennett.net</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">></span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Best practice CSS options</span></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">> </span>It's still better, even from a performance perspective, to output it</span><br>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> directly in the document head.</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> (And most of the file-operation methods used to do such file-writing require</font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> PHP functions that are prohibited in repository-hosted Themes.)</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> Chip</font><br></span>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Well yes, but that's not really the point. Otherwise we'd all be dumping our CSS into the head, but we don't, we use external files instead so that they can be cached across the entire site and to separate them from the content.</font></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">What file-writing PHP functions are needed that are banned? I have a theme which does this and it passes the theme checker plugin just fine. I'd been working on the assumption that anything not blocked by the theme checker plugin was acceptable on the repository.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">thanks,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Ryan</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br>
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