Ironically, apple.com doesn't even support dark mode!
The wording if this makes it sound like supporting dark mode is table stakes. I don't think this is really the case. Personally, I don't expect a site to support dark mode by default.
I was ready to say that I guess that most users don't really know dark mode exists, but apparently over 80% of users prefer dark mode according to "studies" described at the links below. However, the methodology of any of these studies isn't really described, so I'm not at all sure of these results.
> Ironically, apple.com doesn't even support dark mode!
The wording if this makes it sound like supporting dark mode is table stakes. I don't think this is really the case. Personally, I don't expect a site to support dark mode by default.
The irony is that Apple invented dark mode, so I do expect that site to support dark mode by default.
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Ironically, apple.com doesn't even support dark mode!
Also, the hover menus are a usability nightmare: https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-2-9.html
Not to mention that apple.com has a long history of terrible scrolljacking.
The wording if this makes it sound like supporting dark mode is table stakes. I don't think this is really the case. Personally, I don't expect a site to support dark mode by default.
I was ready to say that I guess that most users don't really know dark mode exists, but apparently over 80% of users prefer dark mode according to "studies" described at the links below. However, the methodology of any of these studies isn't really described, so I'm not at all sure of these results.
https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/dark-mode-users/ https://marketsplash.com/dark-mode-usage-statistics/
The irony is that Apple invented dark mode, so I do expect that site to support dark mode by default.
Do you have a source for that? Windows had dark mode in 2016, macOS in 2018 and iOS/Android in 2019.
I'm talking about on the web.
Apple proposed the standard: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3299
Safari 12.1 was the first browser to ship with color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...