On: Things you can do with a browser in 2020

[gwern]

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). :(

[_bxg1 → gwern]

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.

[Cthulhu_ → gwern]

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.

[arc-in-space → gwern]

hey gwern, I personally really appreciate the dark mode support.

[2038AD → gwern]

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).

[saagarjha → gwern]

I enjoy the prefers-color-scheme support!

[chrfrasco → gwern]

Looks like we need prefers-prefers-color-scheme

[gwern → chrfrasco]

But then what happens when they forget opting into the opting in?!

[gwern → gwern]

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.