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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by gwern on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:12PM (#22630622)
Yes, it's such an obscure feature that many of the people who enable it don't even realize it... Ever since I added dark mode to gwern.net, I've been getting or seeing complaints about how my website is broken or 'defaults to black-on-white' (it doesn't). :(
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by _bxg1 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:22PM (#22630707)
Huh... It's weird to me that someone who has that enabled on their OS (even if they didn't realize it) would be upset about it on a website.
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by Cthulhu_ on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:44AM (#22636762)
I've had a similar thing where people were complaining our app was in English (it was for a Dutch company), apparently people get confused about the preferences they themselves have set.
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by arc-in-space on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:06AM (#22635891)
hey gwern, I personally really appreciate the dark mode support.
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by 2038AD on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:54PM (#22630994)
That's silly of them. The only problem I've noticed is that images are inverted when they shouldn't be (e.g. on hover or the enlarged view).
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by saagarjha on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:15PM (#22632781)
I enjoy the prefers-color-scheme support!
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by chrfrasco on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:14PM (#22633195)
Looks like we need prefers-prefers-color-scheme
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by gwern on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:43PM (#22633376)
But then what happens when they forget opting into the opting in?!
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Re:Things you can do with a browser in 2020 by gwern on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:12PM (#22642687)
In all seriousness, because people keep not realizing or forgetting, we're adding a 'theme switcher' little widget. I dislike the need, but lots of people genuinely like dark mode, and this seems to be the best compromise.
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