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This is a user agent (browser) concern not a web site concern. The browser is doing what works for similar broad preferences (eg: language). If you think brows
by bhawks 5y ago
This is a user agent (browser) concern not a web site concern.
The browser is doing what works for similar broad preferences (eg: language). If you think browsers should offer a knob to turn off forwarding you color scheme preference that is reasonable.
What is not reasonable is to encourage sites to ignore content negotiation signals from the browser and rely only on site level controls. The behavior reduces the friction of the web and is a net win for the user.
- Mikho 5y agoMany comments here say that that's what browser says but there is no way to distinguish UI theme from content theme and it's impossible to have dark UI with light content due to browser limitation. Hence, as they say, it's a problem of a browser, not a web-site. If it's obvious for everybody that these content negotiation signals from a browser lack crucial information as to distinguishing between UI and content preferences, maybe it's safer to keep standard default (usually light) and just offer and option to switch to dark in case user wants. Hence, my post here to show this situation. There is no need to force dark theme in the absence of enough information from a browser as to user preferences.