Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years

From another perspective: Isn't it ironic that GitHub doesn't publicly expose it's own /issues?

Like GitLab does: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues

If they did, we wouldn't have to rely on random issues on random repos.

I completely agree, not to mention the questionable merits of dark mode in general. There are numerous third party solutions too, if someone really wanted them.

I wish open standards were this popular.

Yes it should be, but seems the reality is many sites and apps hardcode colors and don't have great separation of presentation from color. Many designers and product people have a hard time getting their head around views that might not look the same and to design for the content, not the picture, etc.

Some people are photophobic and some people use dark mode because of migraines. Some people avoid bright screens after a certain hour for various reasons.

And dark mode is often done poorly. If you could just flip the colors, you could use that phone feature that does that to get the same result but you can't. That typically looks like crap and works poorly.

So long as the <picture> and <source> tags and the media attribute are whitelisted, you can do this:

  <picture>
    <source src=screenshot-dark.png media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
    <img src=screenshot-light.png>
  </picture>

And then if the site is doing dark mode toggling by some means other than `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)`, it can go through and rewrite the media queries in all user-generated content, e.g. to change that one to media="all" in dark mode or media="not all" in light mode.