@luetage said in Safari's latest beta allows websites to adapt their theme based on macOS dark mode:
If I was running a website, I wouldn't want to support any color configuration imaginable.
Fair point.
A dark and a light theme maybe, if that better fits with the operating system the user is using, but I doubt even this will catch on.
Dark modes have been rising in popularity lately, so I do think it could catch on eventually, specially if Chrome were to pick it up as well.
Just look at websites, on most you can't even switch between dark and light manually, but you are expecting that they have inbuilt detection respecting the media query and then add automatic code to exactly match the browser theme.
I was thinking that it would be Vivaldi that would manage this automatic code and not the websites themselves, but I might be far more complicated that I originally thought.
This means most of the colors would have to be calculated automatically and the website theme would have to be built in a way that all color configurations work, including logos, images, menus etc. Maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I don't see this happening.
If websites offer logos, images, menus etc. that can work in both a light and dark mode, I can see these kinds of configurations working. I mean that is already what Vivaldi does with its own UI.
Besides, most internet traffic is mobile nowadays…
If Android and iOS do eventually add dark modes, which I think is fair to assume that they will, then I think that this might catch on.
Vivaldi's userbase is simply too small
Still hope that someday this won't be true.
