I had a thought...
Dunno if it's a good one or a bad one.
I am working on an image-less/responsive theme, for a SMF Fork. I was thinking since it's written in PHP, would it be valid to add php include a "style.php" in the header, containing the all the styles for the pages.
I was thinking this would give me two major benefits. One, would be that I could add variables start to the css file. Two, it would be one less HTTP request. I know that pagespeed and yslow would bitch about the css being included inside the page in between tags, but it is none the wiser, correct?
As far as I can tell, I see alot of benefits in doing it this way regardless of what pagespeed/yslow thinks. I could even do this with javascript, maybe...
I wonder if the IE maximum 4096 CSS rules would still apply?
I am a PHP Ultra Noob, but have a good amount of experience in web design. I can't seem to fine a reason "not" to do it. Any experts willing to share their thought on this idea?