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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.
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How does HN stack up in terms of accessibility? Anyone using a screen reader with HN? What do you wish was different?
I struggle with how low contrast it is. I skip 'Ask HN' style posts because they are too hard to read.
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I prefer day-mode when in bright light. Otherwise the black background ends up reflecting the bright light. I often prefer night-mode when it is not bright out, and at nighttime.
I think the problem is that many of the "dark themes" have grayish fonts that give low contrast. If the font were pure white, the resulting contrast is much more usable in bright light I achieve this by setting my display to higher contrast to blow out the grays, in bright light.
I actually think it’s more likely that many sites use very lightweight fonts, which means that in night mode there’s a lot of dark pixels showing.
I hit this same same issue too. I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. These sites made it too annoying to change the defaults, so I ended up giving up (and just always having my screen brightness near minimum). 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…
This is a real issue for me at times. I have a dark theme set in Gnome, because I want dark system windows, but lots of sites don't bother setting their colours properly, so if I open the Web UI for my Ubiquiti Router, or one of my switches, and try to select a drop-down, the background of it is dark, like my system theme, and the text is dark, so I can't see what I'm choosing. Other times, like if I'm entering text…
Would be cool, if websites would ask, if you like bright or dark website.
I'd be perfectly happy with "just" Firefox not using system controls and using some default.
Asking for a site that can change themes seems to much to ask of a web developer (/jk)
Browsers on macOS appear to be smart enough to not pass through the system dark theme to web content. I'm seeing white forms in Safari and Firefox (Chrome doesn't seem to support dark theming at all). As much as I'm a proponent of OS-native UX, CSS styling of form controls on the web has been a crapfest ever since IE(?) introduced it way back when. Whenever CSS touches a web form control it should just go completely…
> Browsers on macOS appear to be smart enough to not pass through the system dark theme to web content. There two main reasons here: * Browsers don't support dark themes themselves. * Browsers don't support @media(prefers-color-scheme).
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Would be cool, if websites would ask, if you like bright or dark website.
Do you want a pop up every time you browse a page?
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/
(Note, the right hand bar and thus the toggle isn't visible on mobile or narrow windows)
There is a toggle, between day/night mode in the right hand bar on the page, it lets you toggle between the dark and light themes with a click.
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Thanks for this! I've been dealing with this issue for a while now and somehow didn't think to use CSS to fix it (despite having a number of custom stylesheets for various sites).
I think it still needs some work. A couple of months ago I opened a webpage with documentation. It had a table of contents in the sidebar, and it was invisible. White on white. It was because these were simply links, and not input field elements. Perhaps the solution is as simple as assigning these rules to html or body instead of these elements, and letting it cascade. There might also be stylesheets online meant to…
Thanks again!