Does anyone else who lives in #DarkMode have trouble with their eyes shying away from video calls when there are a bunch of people with white backgrounds? I keep having this thing where half the people in my calls have these stark white virtual rooms, and my eyes just keep finding phantom hairs and reasons for me to take my glasses off when that's not the way I am off these calls.
It's even worse when there are more than six people on, and a lot of head movement.
Everyone loves Dark Mode. It is kinder on the eyes, less energy intensive, and looks hecking cool. 5 seconds later We regret to inform you that Dark Mode causes security bugs. (With apologies to Ben Ward) OK, OK. This isn't a particularly severe security bug, but I found it interesting. The Matrix messaging app "Element" […]
OK, OK. This isn't a particularly severe security bug, but I found it interesting.
The Matrix messaging app "Element" lets you sign in to your account on multiple devices. In order to prove those devices are controlled by you, the app asks you to verify the other sessions. This is broadly sensible.
You sign in to the web-based messenger, then you sign in to the Android app. The web asks you if you just signed in, you say yes. The app then says "scan the code shown on the website". You do. And then both devices ask if the logo displayed is identical.
Are those two the same shield? They're both the same shape. They're both green. They both have a tick. But the tick is a different colour!
I suspect this is because the shield on the web has a transparent tick and expects the background colour to be white. But, when in Dark Mode, the background is grey.
Interestingly, my phone was also in Dark Mode - but the image has a solid white tick.
I'm not sure if it is specifically a bug in Matrix or Element (and, TBQH, I'm hazy about their relationshp) so I've raised it on Element's GitHub.
But, let this be a lesson to you. Test all of your interface with all of your different themes. And don't use transparency to convey important security information.
The history and anthropology of dark mode in the transition from the print era to the digital world, with a discussion of why dark mode is making a comeback with mobile devices.
Let’s talk about dark mode and accessibility! There’s a myth that dark mode is good for accessibility, because it improves text readability. It's not always true.
With #GitLab 17.0 (stated to be released on May 16th), the operating system theme preference is now respected, as there is now an opt-in setting to enable "Auto (Experiment)" support in your user preferences panel.
It can finally switch between light & #darkmode when your OS or desktop environment requests it at various times of the day! I tried it; it works.
You can find it under "User Settings > Preferences > Appearance" when running that GitLab version (it is already the case on gitlab.com)
Finally, Google Drive now has dark mode. The Dark Reader browser extension is very good, but on certain websites like Google Drive or Web Outlook it adds a bit of latency which is painful at times.
Every website or project should have a dark mode implemented or at least they should be 100% sure that it is fully work flawlessly with Dark Reader.
Most browsers now support the prefers-color-scheme:
Launching two blog posts on the same day is not what I usually do. Yesterday has been an exception, but at least I delayed the announcement of this one: For those who haven’t read it already, …
On this year’s CSS Naked Day, I saw a lot of sites without stylesheets. But also without dark mode. @sarajw's website and my own have been the exception. So I was wondering, maybe it’s time to talk about “the six (or more) levels of dark mode”. https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/
@pepelsbey Yes, hiding it from printers was the idea, I would assume they are anyhow taken care of in either a theme-independent core stylesheet, or a dedicated print stylesheet.
So I guess I wanted to be on the safe side, #DarkMode for printers could waste a lot of ink. 😉
Are some of your messages in Thunderbird's Dark Mode hard to read? While we work on a more permanent fix, this Bugzilla report has some useful workarounds. 🌙
Is there a way to make #GNOME automatically change the theme, both for ordinary and "legacy" apps, along with the #DarkMode toggle?
My theme has two variants for dark and light, but I have to manually go and change it in GNOME Tweaks every time I want to switch, making the Shell's "dark mode" toggle somewhat redundant
Thanks to a prod from @scott, I finally fixed the issue with full-screen videos looking inverted on my personal site in dark mode.
Also, just updated my blog post on how to implement quick and dirty dark mode support in a few lines of code using CSS filters with the additional code:
Dobra, ten nowy ficzer @Vivaldi, czyli wymuszanie trybu ciemnego na wszystkich stronach internetowych, nawet jeśli nie mają dedykowanego trybu ciemnego, to jest złoto! Jedyny mankament, że można go użyć tylko, gdy ustawimy na sztywno Dark mode, ale może pójdzie jakiś feature request, żeby działało to też w trybie automatycznym.