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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 already has a dark theme or you won't really bother about this.

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As someone else pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298848) this is in a draft for CSS Media Queries level 5

Hm, okay. Then it might make sense to support this, if your user base heavily relies on MacOS. Thanks for the link.

Windows has also had dark mode for apps for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if Edge picks this up in the future.

Also 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.

If 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.

What 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.

> 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

By higher value, I mean they spend more money.

Not 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.

I imagine that they’re saying Safari users are generally of a “more valuable” demographic (maybe because they’re rich enough to afford Macs?)

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