1. dumping work on the web author.
2. no, it doesn‘t tell what color. It simply says dark or light. Who knows which color fits into the rest of the system? The web author certainly cannot know that.
This situation is created by the web developers, doing whatever they can and however they can because even the existing standards are not really enforced, they don't even care about schematics and just use a framework that generates nested `<div>`. The texts are not readable due to the contrast difference, random styles being injected dynamically via JavaScript, etc.
For 2 - I would say that something is better than nothing. Why not provide a slightly better experience for the minority than providing nothing at all? I don't see the argument here, internet stranger.
If the theme preference needs to align with the entire system theme, feel free to make a proposal in W3C, with enough traction we can make it happen.
> feel free to make a proposal in W3C
Why would I? I have no need for ugly dark themes.
This is false, I had a look, if you are talking about the sites you linked in your Keybase profile, I found that you are using prefers-color-scheme to decide what colors the visitor should see if they have dark mode. This is exactly I'm asking others to implement.
@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark) {
body {
color:#fff;
background:#000
}
a:link {
color:#cdf
}
a:hover,
a:visited:hover {
color:#def
}
a:visited {
color:#dcf
}
}
No further comments by me will be added here.