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Posted by paddingtone 8 hours ago

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3(webkit.org)
366 points | 206 commentspage 3
tiffanyh 4 hours ago|
What’s the relationship for Safari and Safari Tech Preview.

Because correct me if I’m wrong, neither of these features were in the Tech Preview.

And numerous features have been in Tech Preview that have never made it into mainline Safari.

stwrt 4 hours ago|
Safari Technology Preview is primarily for testing the latest WebKit features, rather than previewing every upcoming Safari feature.

Safari Beta is generally what you'd want to use to test features coming to the next Safari release.

And yes, features appearing in Technology Preview aren't necessarily guaranteed to ship in Safari.

pazimzadeh 7 hours ago||
Finally..

In dark mode, any windows that aren't dark can be huge eyesores.

I recently made a menu bar utility to enable per-window color invert for this reason: https://github.com/pazimzadeh/WindowInvert/

It helps for apps that don't have dark mode yet (Pages, etc) and even some apps that do (Preview has a dark mode, but it doesn't work on old PDF's).

senderista 7 hours ago||
I just wish all websites supported reader mode.
bla3 8 hours ago||
I know it's always been this way, but it's weird to me that Apple uses the WebKit blog for Safari product announcements.
kccqzy 7 hours ago|
It’s not. The feature is implemented deep within WebKit so it makes sense to be on this blog.

> It’s precisely because Adaptive Dark Mode is happening deep within the WebKit browser engine that we are able to find creative ways to solve the most complex challenges, apply the transformations with great speed and power efficiency

sivanmz 2 hours ago||
Why can’t HN provide a dark mode?
gooseyman 5 hours ago||
This is great.

I use the brave beta appearance option "Dark Mode" and every now and then a site is almost unreadable.

kccqzy 7 hours ago||
A pet peeve of mine is websites thinking oh you prefer dark mode so let’s make the background pure black. I cannot take it because the contrast is too much: #fff on #000 is way more uncomfortable than #000 on #fff for me. There are certain developers who continue to think that dark mode is for conserving battery life with an OLED screen so pure black is preferable. I hate that so much that I have turned off dark mode globally. If websites can’t be bothered to implement an actually nice dark theme like Solarized Dark, I’d rather prefer the light mode.

Besides Solarized Dark, GitHub’s Soft Dark theme is quite well done, but unfortunately it’s not the default for a logged-out user with dark mode. So with dark mode I need to log in to GitHub to get acceptable colors.

Now that I think about it, I need a feature to limit the darkness of colors anywhere on the page, background or text except images. Remap #000 to #222 and #fff to #ddd.

etatester 2 hours ago||
Really exciting! Now do apps.
accelbred 6 hours ago||
This looks awesome! I especially like that its not detectectable by the page for privacy! I want this in firefox.
dawnerd 6 hours ago|
They say it can’t be detected but give it time and someone will figure out some signal that gives it away.
Transcendium 8 hours ago|
I fear this will lead to a lot of broken websites. That seems to be the case with a lot of the browser plugins that provide the same functionality.
kevincox 8 hours ago||
1. It's opt-in. The user is choosing the occasional broken site over light themes.

2. The site can always provide their own dark theme if the automatic one is broken.

arcanemachiner 8 hours ago||
There's a mode like this in an Android Chrome fork called Cromite that works surprisingly well. Most of the other options do suck though.
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