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@Floppy@mastodon.me.ukPeople who use “dark mode” colour schemes on the web; is it preferable to choose it yourself via a setting specifically for the site, or have the site automatically switch based on your system preferences? Is there best practice here? #a11y
Thanks for all the dark mode replies. Unfortunately bootstrap 5.3 allows either auto detection, OR manual choice, not both at once, so I’ll start with auto based on system, then at some point in the future add a manual control.
@boffbowsh @floppy ^^ this exactly.
Including the bit about Notion.
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I have it set at the desktop theme level and at the browser. The only time I run into issues is with webmail and my chosen provider has an option to flip to the light theme.
@floppy auto switch but gimme the site button too
@Floppy Generally follow system preferences unless the user made an explicit choice: https://yatil.net/blog/welcome-to-the-dark-side
@Floppy both! The default should match the browser/operating system setting and with an option to override on the website
@Floppy Automatically set based on my desktop scheme, but let me override it as well (preferably without that ‘flash’ as the browser works out what to set
@Floppy I like dark mode for apps but light mode for websites. I think this comes of too many sites that tried to show me dark grey text on a black background.
Plus, I know this is a bit Old Man Yells At Cloud of me, but it's none of the website's business what my desktop settings are? Creepy.
@floppy I always want a big, obvious switch.
I like dark mode, but I want to choose to toggle it. Mostly because some of them are atrociously designed.
@Floppy You should follow their explicitly presented preference but also give them an easy way to switch to light mode if/when they want. It feels like you are deliberately ignoring what they've asked for otherwise, and is annoying for those who want dark mode to have to set it *again* for every website.
@Floppy I take issue with the responder who said it is an assumption to follow system settings. Yes, it is an assumption. But ignoring an explicit choice in favour of light mode is also an assumption. One assumption follows what the visitor has had input into and the other decides that the website knows better.
(she/her) @Floppy whatever causes the least amount of flashing of light mode, and if you can't get rid of this then can be better not to do dark mode