Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also just donated

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dark reader team be like “Guys! We’re eating pizza tonight!”

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Native”. That every webpage has to implement it themselves is sad. Could be a browser feature that overrides some colors on dark.

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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

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  • ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Aethr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 removes 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.

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  • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom navigation and modifications.

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    • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨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?

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      • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Webextensions get their own webprocessss as well as running in the website. I don’t have a link but if you read their source they just pass a lot of data to their process to determine things (last i looked some years ago).

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