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Sure it's not an issue with whatever is doing that (hacky) dark mode CSS? Looking at the google example, they are setting the font color. It just doesn't look good when dark-mode CSS doesn't take the existing colors into account.
In most examples, they're setting the background colour without corresponding font colour. In the Google example, they're making the opposite mistake.
One should set both or none.
Definitely agree accessibility is important going into 2019. Different users are going to be viewing a site with more screen readers, dark theme, and other alternative viewing options, very much like we saw with mobilegeddon and the advent of responsive design. I've seen the argument that this hurts the "intended web experience", but this can be solved by keeping up with modern CSS practices and crafting the experien…
What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it? Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature. Users should be able to quickly and easily set their default styles for various elements and choose at what precedence level they apply.
Never though about this before, but, dark themes have only recently become widespread, so I'm not necessarily faulting web devs on this.
Never though about this before, but, dark themes have only recently become widespread, so I'm not necessarily faulting web devs on this.
Sure it's not an issue with whatever is doing that (hacky) dark mode CSS? Looking at the google example, they are setting the font color. It just doesn't look good when dark-mode CSS doesn't take the existing colors into account.
The dark mode is actually coming from the GNOME system colors, not browser plugin. From inspecting the CSS in the developer console, the cases in the screenshot either set the background color without setting the text color, or vice versa.
What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it? Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature. Users should be able to quickly and easily set their default styles for various elements and choose at what precedence level they apply.
The practice of users customizing their CSS isn't prevalent because modern sites are incredibly complex and the average user doesn't want (or know how) to spend the time necessary to reverse engineer a site's layout and rewrite its CSS - there is no "quick and easy" way to do that for any but the simplest sites. Just consider how often professional developers complain about CSS, and they get paid to put up with it.
But before I gave up I started collecting sites that either set background-color and not font color, or set color but not background-color: https://gist.github.com/mrspeaker/1846b6b0e12c76f7eeb2. There's a useless list for you!