Website Demos Safari Browser's Upcoming Support for Dark Mode CSS in macOS Mojave 10.14.4

[justperry]

Just one more thing to add to my pile of work as a web developer and designer. Every year more and more on my plate and no more people to help me. First they wanted everything dynamic. Then they wanted content management systems with databases. Then they wanted responsive for every device display size. Then everything moved towards random frameworks that aren't supported longer than a year and everything breaks all the time. Then there were more large mobile display sizes. Then security became more of a pain, mostly becomes of the content management systems and frameworks. Then they wanted everything accessible. Then there were smartwatch display sizes. Then content management systems started changing on a fundamental level requiring rewrites of huge chunks of code. Then we got this dark mode stuff.

I've probably forgotten other crap I've had to deal with but these are the main points since I started making sites as a middle school kid in the late 90s and I feel like most of that is in the past 7 years.

Well, at least you got a decent job instead of making screws for the trashcan Mac Pro.

 

[revmacian]

Just one more thing to add to my pile of work as a web developer and designer. Every year more and more on my plate and no more people to help me. First they wanted everything dynamic. Then they wanted content management systems with databases. Then they wanted responsive for every device display size. Then everything moved towards random frameworks that aren't supported longer than a year and everything breaks all the time. Then there were more large mobile display sizes. Then security became more of a pain, mostly becomes of the content management systems and frameworks. Then they wanted everything accessible. Then there were smartwatch display sizes. Then content management systems started changing on a fundamental level requiring rewrites of huge chunks of code. Then we got this dark mode stuff.

I've probably forgotten other crap I've had to deal with but these are the main points since I started making sites as a middle school kid in the late 90s and I feel like most of that is in the past 7 years.

At least you have a job. I'm deaf and it's near impossible to find a job when you're disabled.

 

[macduke]

At least you have a job. I'm deaf and it's near impossible to find a job when you're disabled.

Tell me about it. My mother-in-law is deaf and all of her brothers and sisters are very successful in their careers and she has always struggled with money. She works part-time as a substitute teacher in a deaf school. We'll probably be supporting her in retirement soon. My father-in-law is deaf and wound up in prison after working years for minimal pay in a factory. My wife grew up very poor in that household. The deaf community has it rough. Hope things turn around for you soon!

 

[confusedpurple]

Which Chrome one are you referring to? I'm terrified I've missed this... things change so fast in Web Dev it's difficult to keep up with everything!

Microsoft are switching Edge over to use Chromium under the hood (which in turn uses Blink, a fork of Webkit). It means that Firefox will be the only browser left not using Blink. Whilst initially for web dev that sounds great, its truly awful, and makes it very easy to go back to the IE lock-in days.

 

[groovyd]

While this is neat, I can’t see it being widely implemented by websites.

I’m a web dev and I feel like unless this becomes a standard across all browsers, we simply won’t implement designs for it. It’s a further cost to our clients (and a pretty major one in reality) and for a single web browser? A web browser that only runs on a single OS? I doubt many companies will be keen to spend money on this.

Most websites are heavily based on frameworks anyway and won't need to 'support it' so long as the frameworks (that pretty much everyone uses) does. Lots of word press, joomla, drupal, etc. Also other browsers are either using WebKit directly or a forked version of it that it seems wouldn't be hard to have this feature merged into as well as lots of apps that run on top of it.

 

[steve62388]

While this is neat, I can’t see it being widely implemented by websites.

I’m a web dev and I feel like unless this becomes a standard across all browsers, we simply won’t implement designs for it. It’s a further cost to our clients (and a pretty major one in reality) and for a single web browser? A web browser that only runs on a single OS? I doubt many companies will be keen to spend money on this.

So the dark mode market just got a lot bigger with iOS 13. What are your thoughts now?

 

[twistedpixel8]

So the dark mode market just got a lot bigger with iOS 13. What are your thoughts now?

They haven’t changed at all. As I alluded to before: I’m happy to do it if the client wants to pay for it, I just don’t think they will.