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Yeah, I’ve been waiting for that to inevitably happen so that I can revert it. Speaking overly broadly, dark mode everything is normally an at-least-slightly ba
by chrismorgan 5y ago
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for that to inevitably happen so that I can revert it. Speaking overly broadly, dark mode everything is normally an at-least-slightly bad idea, but there’s good cause for aesthetic (low-contrast) dark mode of chrome in order to get it mostly out of the way, so that you can focus on the content. This is essentially what most graphics programs default to nowadays, and the same reasoning can be applied to browsers. (Though it only really works if your windows are maximised, otherwise dark between two lights could become a distraction.) No one says “you have a dark desktop background, you must want everything on your system to be dark”. Comment 47’s “When using the "Dark" theme, "prefers-color-scheme" should be dark, because that's what the user requested.” is simply not right. Choosing a dark browser theme is honestly quite a weak hint about whether you want content to be dark. The conflation of this that recent forays into OS-wide dark modes has encouraged is not good.