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Dark Mode Toggles Should Be a Browser Feature

bram.us

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I was going to say it should respect the system setting. Apparently that’s a problem. But personally, i find it irritating if something can, but doesn’t respect my system setting, and i personally fought to not include such a toggle on an iOS app. At least on iOS, if you set things up correctly, it’s easy to support the system setting, and implementing a toggle makes things harder but i am not a web developer, so won’t comment on the problems there.

I’ll add that on iOS, you can add the light/dark toggle to that drop down from the top right drag down menu. In most cases, i use dark mode anyway, i find the need to change the mode because something looks terrible in one mode or the other to be few and far between, but sometimes, i like to work outside, and just switch to light mode. And if i have to find another toggle because something didn’t respect that, it is irritating

To be honest, I like the ability to override the darkmode setting of an app. I want certain apps to be bright sometimes, without having to switch the whole system.

I agree. In all my apps, I provide 3 settings; system, dark and light with the default option being system.

Firefox for iOS has this feature and it was my favorite. I can toggle HN to dark mode too.

We'll probably get a "dark mode" DOM event at some point, if there isn't already.

There is. You can listen to media query changes. So listening to prefers-color-scheme already works quite nicely and I use it in my current project.

oh neat. I'll have to see if it propagates to iframes, if so I can update FastComments since it supports dark mode.

Browsers should implement setting the preferred scheme per site at some point.

It would also be interesting if they could support more than just light and dark.

Boy I really hope so. As it stands a lot of people implement their own toggles and only use „prefers-color-scheme“ for the initial setting of the theme. Using the plain media query everywhere would be much preferable and actually reduce the amount of CSS needed by a fair amount.

But fingerprinting

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