Why do they make displays on devices that are likely to get used outside GLOSSY?
On a related note: today I learned it's super easy to give your website an alternate dark mode theme in most browsers. Assuming your color scheme is in relatively clean CSS to start with, anyway.
Just add a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {...} section after you define the light-scheme colors and define the dark mode colors and backgrounds there!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
I wrote up what it takes to add simple #darkmode support to a site so it can have a light theme on light-colored screens and a dark theme on dark screens (and not blast your eyes out).
Just CSS media queries for the alternate styles!
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {...}
And <picture><source><img></picture> to swap out images to fit different schemes.
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/darkmode-web/
On that note, anyone know how to test this in Chrome or Safari without changing the system theme?
After messing with #darkmode the last couple of days I'm reminded of how way back in #Windows95 you could set a theme for the system UI by choosing individual colors for window backgrounds, borders, buttons, dialog boxes, etc. I liked to set the standard gray background to sepia and see which programs used the system colors and which hard-coded gray, making their UI a weird patchwork where their custom components weren't the same scheme as the built-in ones.
Decided to look at the win95 hashtag. Apparently I posted almost the same thing two years ago.
@KelsonV
for chromium based browsers you can use this to switch: https://dev.to/codepo8/quick-developer-tools-tip-simulating-dark-light-colour-mode-1cpg
@FiXato Thanks! what's funny is I saw that page but only looked as far as the first half of the article on finding the menu item in Edge! 🤦♂️
OK, thanks to @FiXato I've updated it with directions for Chrome and other Chromium based browsers!
Still not sure how to do it in Safari. I'll experiment when I have time, but if anyone here happens to know, please pass along the info! Thanks!