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Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility (diff.wikimedia.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Native dark modes are better and have much less of a performance impact. It’s good as a stop gap though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Native dark modes are better

Agreed. Well, I don't know if it'd deal with random images as well, as users can upload those.

and have much less of a performance impact.

For a number of sites, you can just get away with running Dark Reader in static mode and it works well enough. Considerably faster.

EDIT: Actually, thanks for reminding me. I've never donated to Dark Reader, and it looks like they ask for a $10 donation if you use it regularly, and that plugin has dramatically improved my Web-browsing experience. Going to do that now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also just donated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Dark reader team be like "Guys! We're eating pizza tonight!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe. Does it make a big performance difference which css (dark reader or delivered by wiki) is used?

Is it known how the default to dark mode setting is persisted if let's say a plugin removed all the Wikipedia cookies on window close? A get or post parameter?

Either way it's a good thing that wiki offers a dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lots of dom modifications

That's good to know. These modifications are needed to replace the style sheet details, I guess?

passes around far too much data between processes.

What does this mean? Do you have a link where I could read up on the details? Thanks.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"Native". That every webpage has to implement it themselves is sad. Could be a browser feature that overrides some colors on dark.
Then again, with webapps, probably not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is sorta how dark reader and such works. It turns out that implementing dark mode for most websites is more complicated than inverting all the css colors. For example, some gray on white text might have enough contrast to be easily read, but when inverted the text is hard to discern or nearly invisible. Images too, they might have a white background but not look good when inverted. Native support is better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough they do. Before Dark Reader on Firefox on Android I had a Chrome flag that did the same thing. But Dark Reader does a better job IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Chrome flag works on some websites, but makes others completely unreadable. Do not recommend unless you can't use dark reader