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Also while it's very cool that they support this in Safari, I highly doubt someone will do CSS adjustments JUST for Safari users like this. Either your page alr
by akuji1993 8y ago
Also while it's very cool that they support this in Safari, I highly doubt someone will do CSS adjustments JUST for Safari users like this. Either your page already has a dark theme or you won't really bother about this.
- stephenr 8y agoAs someone else pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298848) this is in a draft for CSS Media Queries level 5
- akuji1993 8y agoHm, okay. Then it might make sense to support this, if your user base heavily relies on MacOS. Thanks for the link.
- michaelmior 8y agoWindows has also had dark mode for apps for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if Edge picks this up in the future.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoAlso on Linux GNOME has had a popular dark mode for its default theme (Adwaita) for ages now, and KDE has a bundled dark theme bundled by default (IIRC, haven’t used KDE in ages). I think Android has this option too? Basically, it’s not just a “macOS thing”, lots of systems now have dark modes.
- aczerepinski 8y agoIf you can justify dozens of CSS adjustments for IE11, it isn't much of a stretch to spend half that amount of time making something cool for (typically) higher value Safari users as well.
- ikfmpwdsoz 8y agoWhat do you mean by "higher value"? Getting IE11 to work will net you an extra 2.85% of the market, but adding a very minor feature that's only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all.
- sparewalking 8y ago> only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all. Why is that? According to [1] Safari has 14% market share. Just the desktop version has 5%. [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
- aczerepinski 8y agoBy higher value, I mean they spend more money.
- Insanity 8y agoNot sure if you could back that up. I assume you say this because tech-savvy people will not use IE? But that is assuming the content is aimed at this group.
- Gaelan 8y agoI imagine that they’re saying Safari users are generally of a “more valuable” demographic (maybe because they’re rich enough to afford Macs?)