[development] Improving theme('username') with inspiration from Facebook

[Boris Mann]

On 8/20/07, Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know that all of the Facebook options are useful to us, and it
> seems like a couple might problematic for localization and
> internationalization.  Still, it would be nice to have a some
> flexibility in styling user names in core.
>
> How about something like pluggable "theme-lets" or "micro-themes," so
> site owners can pick and choose which things they want special theming
> applied to, without getting a huge barrel full of unwanted extra code,
> sort of like enabling additional types in CCK?

I think the main point was "what are the minimal set of useful items
that could go into core?". If the answer is "none", then the whole
thing could be done as a contrib module.

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