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Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by TAKEMYMONEY »

magnio wrote: post #84
eadmund wrote: post #78

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> If you want to inject CSS, use a "user styles" manager like Stylus. Unfortunately, Firefox on Android only supports a limited number of extensions, and Stylus is not currently one of them. It's really sad, because I used to have some nice site-specific user styles. I really don't understand Mozilla's decisions. They destroyed their password security, they destroyed their extension advantage. One wonders what's next…

They kinda do, but it is quite cumbersome. You have to use Firefox Nightly, and create an Add-on Collection on the marketplace, and then add that collection to Firefox. That is how I use uBlock on Android. (Last time I try, if you want to add an extension, you have to create a new collection and ... reinstall Firefox, but maybe that's just me.)

Wow, thank you! What's the technical reason I can't install it (typically) on FF Android?

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by daedalus_f »

da39a3ee wrote: post #54
mikae1 wrote: post #4

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I find there's often a high degree of educated comments here on HN. But, when it comes to monitors, readability and the physics of light something happens. #000 on #fff won't burn out your retinas. :)

I think the trouble is that even educated humans struggle to talk intelligently about medical and psychological problems. We all worry about our health and mortality, and the idea that a psychological or medical condition threatens your life is somewhere between an existential threat, and a worrying cloud over your life. As a result, people easily become wedded to the idea that a particular condition is affecting the…

I'm from a biology/healthcare background and come to HN for the interesting tech discussions, trivia and the different perspective. I've learnt loads over the past few years and got into a few amateur programming projects in my free time and I'm grateful for that. But I've stopped going to the comments section of anything related to my actual fields of knowledge because the comments are often so wrong/borderline crazy it's hard to know where to start. Makes me wonder if the comments on the tech stuff I don't know so much about are often just as bad but I can't tell...

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by kingcharles »

waffle_ss wrote: post #46
jraph wrote: post #7

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Very much related to my comment [1] two days ago on Please Stop Using Grey Text [2] that says essentially the same thing with more verbiage [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421666 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420938 (397 points by marban 1 day ago, 376 comments) - https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acf...

What is the point in linking this? Imagine the mess that comment threads would be if everyone who made similar comments about something did this.

I actually really appreciated the comment above. Downvote it if you don't like it. If it gets enough downvotes because the community hates it, then it'll go away.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by jeroenhd »

TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #91
magnio wrote: post #84

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They kinda do, but it is quite cumbersome. You have to use Firefox Nightly, and create an Add-on Collection on the marketplace, and then add that collection to Firefox. That is how I use uBlock on Android. (Last time I try, if you want to add an extension, you have to create a new collection and ... reinstall Firefox, but maybe that's just me.)

Wow, thank you! What's the technical reason I can't install it (typically) on FF Android?

The addon API has been left incomplete and the Fenix team doesn't seem very interested in bringing the rest of the ecosystem to mobile.

The rewrite also took other things like the ability to past IPv6 addresses in the URL bar or the ability to open about:config (only accessible in beta/nightly/forks) because you could edit settings and mess up badly enough that the entire app stops breaking.

It's been a few years now and I simply don't expect Firefox for Android to regain its previous functionality anymore. It's now a slightly more privacy friendly, slightly slower Chrome replacement that occasionally asks you to please sign up for its VPN. If you want something fixed, you'll have to open a pull request and hope the Fenix people don't see your bug as a feature.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by jeroenhd »

TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #87
userbinator wrote: post #57

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especially on full brightness Then turn down the brightness. Pure black/white should never be uncomfortable, if it is then your monitor needs adjusted. In fact I suspect a lot of this stupid low-contrast trend comes from designers who don't know that and are trying to compensate for it in software. Monitors come with the brightness set ridiculously high so they'll look good in a showroom (and possibly to make the bac…

> Then turn down the brightness On all my computers? And my phone? And my tablet? And my... You could say the same about sites where the body text is set unreadably small. "Just zoom in!" It does not persist across devices, sessions, users etc the way a well-designed site would.

I have my phone on auto brightness and my displays on max brightness. Black on white is perfectly readable to me, even in the dark.

I don't know what ultra HDR monitor you're using or what light sensitivity issue you may have, but I don't want to have to install addons in my browser because you can't find the brightness slider.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by jjcm »

perihelions wrote: post #9

I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them. Two small examples: "Show all text on the internet as black" *##*:style(color: black !important) "Show comment text on HN as bold" ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important…

For a more future oriented version (as setting a font to black wont work with dark pages), check out the CSS Color Module Level 5 spec for color-contrast(), which will automatically choose a color that has a proper contrast ratio: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-5/#funcdef-color-contrast

One caveat is it's currently only supported in Safari technical preview.

Another thing worth mentioning is the relative brightness algo used in the repo for the linked plugin is using the WCAG 2 formula for relative luminance. This works pretty well in light mode for non-colored backgrounds, but doesn't incorporate perceived luminosity differences of different hues very well. A better algorithm to use here is the Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA), which is the one used in the WCAG 3 working spec. It more accurately accounts for hue: https://github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by eurasiantiger »

jjcm wrote: post #98
perihelions wrote: post #9

I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them. Two small examples: "Show all text on the internet as black" *##*:style(color: black !important) "Show comment text on HN as bold" ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important…

For a more future oriented version (as setting a font to black wont work with dark pages), check out the CSS Color Module Level 5 spec for color-contrast(), which will automatically choose a color that has a proper contrast ratio: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-5/#funcdef-color-contrast One caveat is it's currently only supported in Safari technical preview. Another thing worth mentioning is the relative brightness…

These tools have existed in Sass/LESS for a decade, and in modern design tools too. There is no excuse.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by gnicholas »

ciwolsey wrote: post #58
greggsy wrote: post #18

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Dark Reader renders 90% of pages fine with no tweaking, the remainder aren’t hard to switch to an alternative mode. Best $7.99 I’ve spent.

Isn't it free though?

It's paid on iOS. Currently $5. There are alternatives that offer the same functionality for free, like Hyperweb (YC W19).
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