So… the browser is now intentionally lying now. Ain’t that great.
To the server. I'm 100% behind this. The unholy amount of control websites have over our web browser should go down, not up.
Especially when so many lack reasonable ADA compliance.
Worse: it’s attacking you
Worst: it’s attacking someone else as you
iOS since 26 has been presenting parts of the system in dark mode despite having the device set to light only. One of the ‘best’ is that launcher groups switch to dark background, but they forgot to switch the text colour, so app names are unreadable. I had hoped iOS 27 would fix it, but no, so I'm switching to Android.
2. The site can always provide their own dark theme if the automatic one is broken.
I added dark mode to my blog a while ago and it was a little trying to do properly.
You can implement a half-assed dark mode yourself by adding the following css.
@media(prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {
filter: invert();
}
}
filter: invert() hue-rotate(180deg)
color-scheme: light dark;
For icons, ideally they’d be SVGs controlled by currentColor, but that may not be feasible or convenient depending on your setup.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V...
Safari and Firefox are pretty small.
Here is to hoping that is not the case, and they did a good job with the implementation in Safari, but I have my suspicions.
Yes, developers can solve this by simply implementing dark mode.
This sounds like it meets that threshold, it will just surely be a hit-or-miss mess. Hopefully if it makes it to iOS it will drive more site owners to adapt to `prefers-color-scheme`.
This has to be the result of some passion project by yet another whacko dark mode fanatic (you know who you are). Non-standard, assuredly buggy, and basically a maintenance nightmare. Good luck with that craziness.
Can we have another setting which turns dark websites into actually readable light designs for adults?
I wish the crusade to make everything dark would end.
So do others. https://xkcd.com/3227/
Don’t you love it when browsers lie to websites to enhance the user’s privacy.
The preference, either way, is an important accessibility feature.
guessmyname•37m ago
• As a web developer: what a nightmare, now your website will look different to different people, as if having to support multiple browser engines and multiple screen rations, and multiple platforms, etc. was not a big pile of problems already.
• As someone who doesn’t like dark-mode due to eye strain: good-good… for people who like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
vulcan01•32m ago
> The HTML <meta name="color-scheme" content="light only"> tag lets browsers know that 1) this page supports light mode and 2) should only be displayed in light mode.
Spivak•32m ago
mortenjorck•32m ago
(I say this as a designer who has spent countless hours on dark-mode palettes as well as someone who has the automatic circadian toggle enabled everywhere.)
apsurd•31m ago
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Telaneo•24m ago
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isityettime•10m ago
That's what the web has always been. People don't all have the same display types, the same subpixel layouts, the same display sizes, the same DPIs, the same fonts, the same zoom levels... People use reader modes, global restyling extensions, per-site custom style sheets, full screen magnifiers, bounded/partial magnifiers, screen readers, OS high-contrast modes... the web has never been a fixed canvas that you get to paint on and then hand to users.
kps•8m ago