Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave

Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by akuji1993 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:30AM (#18299599)

Also while it's very cool that they support this in Safari, I highly doubt someone will do CSS adjustments JUST for Safari users like this. Either your page already has a dark theme or you won't really bother about this.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by stephenr on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:33AM (#18299602)

As someone else pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298848) this is in a draft for CSS Media Queries level 5

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by akuji1993 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:50AM (#18299678)

Hm, okay. Then it might make sense to support this, if your user base heavily relies on MacOS. Thanks for the link.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by michaelmior on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:35AM (#18301184)

Windows has also had dark mode for apps for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if Edge picks this up in the future.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by kitsunesoba on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:22AM (#18301577)

Also on Linux GNOME has had a popular dark mode for its default theme (Adwaita) for ages now, and KDE has a bundled dark theme bundled by default (IIRC, haven’t used KDE in ages).

I think Android has this option too?

Basically, it’s not just a “macOS thing”, lots of systems now have dark modes.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by aczerepinski on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:44AM (#18300149)

If you can justify dozens of CSS adjustments for IE11, it isn't much of a stretch to spend half that amount of time making something cool for (typically) higher value Safari users as well.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by ikfmpwdsoz on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:11AM (#18300596)

What do you mean by "higher value"? Getting IE11 to work will net you an extra 2.85% of the market, but adding a very minor feature that's only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by sparewalking on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:58AM (#18300901)

> only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all.

Why is that? According to [1] Safari has 14% market share. Just the desktop version has 5%.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by aczerepinski on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:18AM (#18301060)

By higher value, I mean they spend more money.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by Insanity on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:05PM (#18304579)

Not sure if you could back that up. I assume you say this because tech-savvy people will not use IE?

But that is assuming the content is aimed at this group.

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Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave by Gaelan on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:21AM (#18301090)

I imagine that they’re saying Safari users are generally of a “more valuable” demographic (maybe because they’re rich enough to afford Macs?)

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