Just using black often feels like enabling accessibility features for contrast (as iOS has one) but at first glance I feel like the GH version is just fine for me due to the usage of grey instead of white for outlines and fonts.
Whenever I see something like this I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers. I know I can use greasemonkey or whatever to hack something together (or stick to lynx), but why don't websites generally just deliver text and leave the decision of how to render it up to me?
And therefore they should control how your web browser works on your computer? I don't think so.
Remember the scourge of pop-up windows? Alert loops? Auto-playing sound and video? Obnoxious flash animations? Intrusive tracking? Megabytes of adtech attached to 3 kilobytes of text? No need to accept obnoxious, battery-draining, data-eating garbage if you don't need or want it.
I often end up at GitHub while not logged in so I am hoping they change the default setting to “use system mode”. That way, at least it will probably match what I currently have set on my computer even if I’m not logging in.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 38.1 ms ] threadFeels so much better on the eyes.
Um... because it is their website?
> why don't websites generally just deliver text and leave the decision of how to render it up to me?
Because the general public wants to go to a website and for it to look good immediately without any configuration.
And therefore they should control how your web browser works on your computer? I don't think so.
Remember the scourge of pop-up windows? Alert loops? Auto-playing sound and video? Obnoxious flash animations? Intrusive tracking? Megabytes of adtech attached to 3 kilobytes of text? No need to accept obnoxious, battery-draining, data-eating garbage if you don't need or want it.