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> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed.

What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.

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If your setup runs everything in forced hdr you won’t notice. OSes like MacOS will map sdr making everything look dim that’s not hdr.

I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

On mac the OS remaps the brightness range when HDR content appears. The rest of the content literally and materially dims.

Lol, so one HDR element on a website changes the entire desktop environment to be dimmer? :P Fun implementation.

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