"Dark mode was one of the most requested features for Lighthouse. I refrained a long time from adding it because it adds additional work to every UI task."
This reveals a lot about the regression in OSes. Way back in the early '90s, Windows provided a color-scheme editor. Users could set up any color scheme they liked, and all properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine.
I think the major Unix GUIs offered something similar. Meanwhile, Apple's vaunted UI was crippled by hard-coded colors everywhere.
Fast-forward what, 20 years? Everyone finally realizes that inverse color schemes (black text on a white background) SUCK. But what does Microsoft do? REMOVE the color-scheme editor from Windows.
We're still running around trying to deal with a "problem" that was solved 25 years ago. And, as a developer, I can tell you it has been pretty shambolic on Apple platforms. I guess you can say they never understood proper color management, but... damn. So many broken controls in iOS after "dark mode" was first added. A massive design and QA failure.
ghssds 9 minutes ago [-]
>Way back in the early '90s, Windows provided a color-scheme editor. Users could set up any color scheme they liked, and all properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine.
It was barely usable. Many developers used the colors of the default theme no matter what. Others used the Windows-supplied colors for the background color and maybe the main foreground color, then used fixed, non-customizable colors for everything else, making everything invisible or hard to see if you used anything but a white-ish background. Trying to use what we now call dark mode was a big no. At best you could replace the wallpaper by an all-black screen so you feel a little less irradiated by your crt.
Terretta 18 hours ago [-]
The notion that the sidebar icons should be aligned with the firm brand logo doesn't make sense to me, these things are not the same. On that point, the before looks better than the after, to me, as the difference is differentiated.
The "what good looks like" example provided, HeroUI, avoids aligning these:
I am not sure what is going on with that screen, but the whole page seems to be "vibrating" in a very distracting way, never encountered that on another site before!
It appears to be related to my display settings on Mac OS. When the text size for the display is set to the "Larger text" it shows this vibrating. When the text size is set to one of the smaller sizes the shaking/vibrating does not appear.
userbinator 38 minutes ago [-]
I honestly don't care at all about "good-looking"; I care more about "functional". Far too many apps seem to be aiming for the former instead of or at the expense of the latter.
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"Dark mode was one of the most requested features for Lighthouse. I refrained a long time from adding it because it adds additional work to every UI task."
This reveals a lot about the regression in OSes. Way back in the early '90s, Windows provided a color-scheme editor. Users could set up any color scheme they liked, and all properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine.
I think the major Unix GUIs offered something similar. Meanwhile, Apple's vaunted UI was crippled by hard-coded colors everywhere.
Fast-forward what, 20 years? Everyone finally realizes that inverse color schemes (black text on a white background) SUCK. But what does Microsoft do? REMOVE the color-scheme editor from Windows.
We're still running around trying to deal with a "problem" that was solved 25 years ago. And, as a developer, I can tell you it has been pretty shambolic on Apple platforms. I guess you can say they never understood proper color management, but... damn. So many broken controls in iOS after "dark mode" was first added. A massive design and QA failure.
It was barely usable. Many developers used the colors of the default theme no matter what. Others used the Windows-supplied colors for the background color and maybe the main foreground color, then used fixed, non-customizable colors for everything else, making everything invisible or hard to see if you used anything but a white-ish background. Trying to use what we now call dark mode was a big no. At best you could replace the wallpaper by an all-black screen so you feel a little less irradiated by your crt.
The "what good looks like" example provided, HeroUI, avoids aligning these:
https://www.heroui.pro/components/application/layouts
It appears to be related to my display settings on Mac OS. When the text size for the display is set to the "Larger text" it shows this vibrating. When the text size is set to one of the smaller sizes the shaking/vibrating does not appear.