Instead of three stylesheets for 'all', 'screen' and 'print' modes, they are all loaded into a single stylesheet by wrapping all screen styles in a "@media screen {}" and all print styles in a "@media print {}". The 'all' mode is not wrapped in anything.
Potential issues with existing CSS: If any of your screen or print CSS files already contain any "@media" syntax, the CSS will probably break. In that case please add any CSS with "@media" in it to the 'all' mode instead!

Also, the 'rtl' mode is hereby deprecated. Please just prefix any RTL styles within your normal CSS files with "[dir=rtl]". This also fixes that RTL styles cannot be added for 'all' or 'print' modes.

removed all browser-specific gradients as the recently (in 42ff6730) introduced svg makes them unnecessary

fixed performance issues with gradient in Firefox (which also added gradient support for IE9) (FS#2447)

* removed all occurrences of '-moz-linear-gradient'
* added SVG as fallback for Firefox, IE9 and other browsers to page background and buttons

This time PHP and libGD is used so it should work on Windows as well.
The image quality is much better this time and the active highlight
color is read directly from the template's style.ini

This makes it easier to modify or extend the icons in the sprite.
Just place the source files in the pagetools directory and run the build
script.

as discussed at https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/pull/82#r419699

Add rtl.css as *screen* style, but append all RTL styles with [dir=rtl].
That has the advantage that all styles are in the same CSS output, so there are no different requests.

Later on all styles in rtl.css should be moved to their respective "parent" css file.