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I haven't tried the latest macOS beta yet, but I remember a few years back finding a minor bug related this: neither Chrome nor Safari handled appearance / high

I haven't tried the latest macOS beta yet, but I remember a few years back finding a minor bug related this: neither Chrome nor Safari handled appearance / highlight color changes correctly. If I remember correctly, I think changing the value wouldn't be completely reflected on any open page until you either refreshed the page or restarted the app; it was one of those two, but I don't remember which. Funny enough, I think some colors did change correctly, but not all. Admittedly, I tested this out using CSS System Colors, which is sadly deprecated. I vaguely recall finding a few bugs with Finder as well, where if you switched back and forth it wouldn't update all colors correctly. Of course, it worked fine after restarting the app... But if Apple's own apps have bugs relating to this, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a common problem for other third-party apps. Another thing people might wanna try out relating to macOS appearance is going to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display, and enabling "Increase contrast". It makes some colors look a bit uglier, but I really love how it makes all UI elements stand out. For anyone that doesn't have macOS, or is too lazy to try it out, here's two comparison pictures: * Default appearance: https://imgur.com/W93o3Md https://imgur.com/W93o3Md * Increased contrast: https://imgur.com/oocjMPs https://imgur.com/oocjMPs A bit tangential... I'm hoping that at some point you can use a media query on the browser to test for this value. For example, there's already prefers-reduced-motion [0] on WebKit. I've definitely seen a GitHub issue at some point suggesting that a similar media query be added for users that prefer higher contrast interfaces, but I can't find it at the moment. Unfortunately when I last checked it didn't seem like there was much interest; as usual, accessibility features seem to take a backseat with many browser vendors. [0] https://webkit.org/blog/7551/responsive-design-for-motion/ https://webkit.org/blog/7551/responsive-design-for-motion/

Razengan 8y ago
> Another thing people might wanna try out relating to macOS appearance is going to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display, and enabling "Increase contrast". You can also try increasing the "Display contrast" slider (to around the 3rd notch) while in Mojave Dark Mode, to remove the soft gray from the window chrome and replace it with truer black. It affects all other colors of course, but it can improve reading/writing for those of us burning the midnight oil.
thought_alarm 8y ago
When you do finally try macOS 10.14 you'll find that Apple has done an excellent job in ensuring that apps respond immediately to appearance changes. Dark Mode would be complete crap without that ability.

Razengan 8y ago

> Another thing people might wanna try out relating to macOS appearance is going to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display, and enabling "Increase contrast". You can also try increasing the "Display contrast" slider (to around the 3rd notch) while in Mojave Dark Mode, to remove the soft gray from the window chrome and replace it with truer black. It affects all other colors of course, but it can improve reading/writing for those of us burning the midnight oil.

thought_alarm 8y ago

When you do finally try macOS 10.14 you'll find that Apple has done an excellent job in ensuring that apps respond immediately to appearance changes. Dark Mode would be complete crap without that ability.