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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-don't-know-the-power-of-the-dark-mode dept.

Submitted via IRC for soylent_brown

The Dark Mode craze may do more harm than good – this is why

The hot new topic in terms of smartphone and computer software right now is Dark Mode, an optional system look that flips the colors of an app or operating system to make it, well, dark. Instagram has a dark mode, as does Chrome, WhatsApp, Gmail, and iOS 13, and it seems apps and developers are tripping over themselves to create a new dark mode for their software.

There's just one problem which none of these hard-working people seem to have considered that makes their work redundant, and the attention they've taken from other projects will be in vain: all in all, dark mode looks totally awful.

That's not a dig at any dark mode in particular, and no developers have implemented it particularly poorly (well, apart from Android 10). But in the rush for developers to see if they could implement dark mode on their apps, no-one asked if they should - and taken stock of how it might be reworked better rather than just following the trend.

Beyond that, there are legitimate reasons why developers shouldn't be focusing on Dark Mode. Here's why the Dark Mode craze is just crazy.

So dear soylentils, do you use dark mode on your applications, and why or why not?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:28PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:28PM (#912205)

    is this available to ACs or do I need an account to set the theme? I don't see any links to settings or themes...

  • (Score: 2) by lars on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:30PM

    by lars (4376) on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:30PM (#912396)

    You have to be logged in AFAIK.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:08PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:08PM (#912443)

    It would be possible to change themes in your browser without cookies accounts or similar stuff. You just have to patch rehash to enable alternate stylesheets :P

    This way users could change theme in the browser. In FF that would be View -> Page Style.

    <LINK href="default.css" title="Total Default" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <LINK href="pony.css" title="OMG Ponies!" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <LINK href="dark.css" title="The Dark Side" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <LINK href="third.css" title="Third Option" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css">

    https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/styles.html#h-14.3.1 [w3.org]

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday October 27 2019, @05:35PM

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday October 27 2019, @05:35PM (#912467) Journal
      How to set a custom style sheet varies both by browser and browser version. Unfortunately.
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      SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:44PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:44PM (#912951)

      If those stylesheets were available separately, I could probably overwrite the stylesheet references in the document with a greasemonkey script. But it looks like Rehash decides which style to use based on user preferences. Right?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:55PM (#912956)

        Never mind, someone already posted a dark theme with a userscript to do that right here [soylentnews.org].