Some advice from Andy on creating a dark theme for your website. It’s not just about the colours—there are typography implications too.
At first glance, this looks like a terrible idea. But the key is in the implementation. In this case, the implementation is truly awful.
The section on detecting “auto dark theme” is, as far as I can tell, not intended as a joke.
Mind you, this could all be a galaxy-brain idea to encourage more developers to provide their own dark mode styles. (In much the same way that AMP was supposed to encourage better performance.)
Here’s a comprehensive round-up of new CSS that you can use right now—you can expect to see some of this in action at Web Day Out!
There’s really good browser support for display-mode media queries and this article does a really good job of running through some of the use cases for your progressive web app.
I love how straightforward these bits of CSS are—time to rip out some of those old complicated hacks and workarounds!
Well, now I’m really glad I wrote that post about logical properties!
We’re not there yet. So how do we get there?
Well, I don’t know for sure – but articles like this are very helpful as we try to work it out!
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.
Let me hear your blocky talk.
I had the honour being Master of Ceremonies at the world’s first conference dedicated to progressive enhancement.
An emergent theme at An Event Apart Seattle 2019.
Programming with CSS.