Comment by thanatos519 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by thanatos519 | Hacker News Reader

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I don't use Dark UI to distinguish from content. I want everything in dark mode ... so I use the Dark Reader extension, but when I notice a site has its own dark mode, I turn off Dark Reader for that site, since they tend to clash.

It should be up to the user: the browser should let the user select which theme preference to pass on to websites. Magic extensions like Dark Reader should turn themselves off when the site is using its own dark mode.

While we're on the topic of browser/site misbehaviour: Sites that presume that my full-screen portrait mode browser is a mobile device need to die in a fire. I do not need big buttons and a hamburger menu on my desktop monitor. WTF don't they have a device-type-query instead of guessing by aspect ratio?

> Sites that presume that my full-screen portrait mode browser is a mobile device need to die in a fire.

As should sites that render font-size such that I get the exact same number of characters per screenful on a phone or tablet. I don’t need giant characters on my iPad, the focal distance is approximately the same, and it’s a waste of screen real estate.

Maybe there should be a UI setting in browsers like "Make everything dark" or "Use dark version by default if a site has it" — to have a clear signal for sites with dark theme option about user's preferred choice.

In fact Chrome has a "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents" experiment under chrome://flags that does the "make everything dark" thing.

Here's an example screenshot I took the other day of the HN frontpage. Chrome with FDM on the left, Firefox on the right: https://imgur.com/a/TiNxsR6

it would be nice if that was a per-site toggle in the UI (that's the approach darkreader uses, and I think it works well).

Looks cool. More browsers should do the same.

Styx browser and Einkbro on fdroid have this. Also, this acts like a switch and can vbe easily changed on a per site basis for Styx Browser. Try it!

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