#510284 by dagmar: Convert header/footer/empty text to pluggable areas and make them handlers so they can benefit from the settings + rearrange system.

#349178 by agentrickard: Add generic link handling plus a custom text field. Also automatic trimming.

Major re-organization of handlers. PLEASE NOTE: This drastically affected the Views module API and until modules are updated to match, they will stop working. Efforts have been made to ensure that this won't cause your site to crash, but that's partly up to the individual module as well.

Some refactoring of how handlers are handled, particularly with their default options. This is an unfortunately widespread change and will affect modules utilizing the API.

#254325: by aclight: provide a NULL argument which accepts an argument (or refuses to accept an argument) but does nothing with it.