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title: Respect my damn color scheme preference
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author: flewkey
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timestamp: 1636400000
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license: CC-BY
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I recently switched from light themes to dark themes. Dark themes seem to be
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supported enough that most applications seem to work with them. Many
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websites don’t, but it’s not the end of the world. Theming is hard and I do not
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expect developers to support it.
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However, I find it inexcusable and frustrating when a website already has a dark
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theme, but ignores the user’s preferences. Especially if they have a stupid
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little theme selector that writes to a value in localStorage or something.
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If you must use JavaScript to set your themes, consider taking your user’s color
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scheme preference into consideration when choosing which theme to default to. We
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will be grateful.
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```
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if (window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches)
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/* Set theme */
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```
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Even better, you can just use a media query like a normal person. If you need
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to override it with JavaScript later, you can do that.
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