Is Safari Automatic Dark Mode working for you?

[Yoms]

Hey,

I have macOS 10.14.4 that brings this Safari feature:
Adds Dark Mode support for websites that support custom color schemes

So, I expected websites such as YouTube, Twitter, DuckDuckGo (that feature a dark theme/night mode) to be... well... dark. And that's not the case. I have to manually turn on that option on these websites. It's not the default rendering.

Were my expectations wrong?

 

[Ritsuka]

Yes, the website has to be modified to support the automatica switch.

 

[Yoms]

Yes, the website has to be modified to support the automatica switch.

But then what's automatic? What's the new feature about?

 

[martyjmclean]

Yes, the website has to be modified to support the automatica switch.

But then what's automatic? What's the new feature about?

If the website supports standard colour schemes, it's automatic. Unfortunately this "feature" is useless, most websites use their own colour schemes and Safari's 6% market share is not going to persuade anyone.

 

[Yoms]

If the website supports standard colour schemes, it's automatic. Unfortunately this "feature" is useless, most websites use their own colour schemes and Safari's 6% market share is not going to persuade anyone.

OK, got it. But I thought Safari feature was more clever than that by really analysing the CSS and "understand/detect" the dark colour schemes used by the website.

 

[Ritsuka]

No, the feature simply tells the website "hey I prefer dark/normal", if the website do nothing with this info, nothing will happen.

 

[Yoms]

No, the feature simply tells the website "hey I prefer dark/normal", if the website do nothing with this info, nothing will happen.

Ok, thanks. Yes I found it. It's a CSS query indeed. I thought it the other way around : after downloading the CSS files form the website, Safari would look into all of them in order to find it there's a dark scheme and will render it preferably.

 

[Stephen.R]

The css media query in question is being adopted by other browsers, so expect sites to start supporting it over the coming months.

 

[steve62388]

The css media query in question is being adopted by other browsers, so expect sites to start supporting it over the coming months.

If iOS 13 ends up with a dark mode I suspect this will greatly accelerate adoption.