elementary/website

Support dark color schemes

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#2,192 opened on May 15, 2019

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Description

With browsers across macOS, Android, Windows, and soon iOS and GNOME Web supporting the prefers-color-scheme media query, we should support it for our site as well. This involves a few tasks:

  • Support the media query itself with a specific dark color scheme
  • Check images and ensure major ones (i.e. on the front page) don't have hardcoded white backgrounds—instead, we should use transparent PNGs
  • Test at least on macOS Safari and Chrome Canary for Android

More info: https://webkit.org/blog/8840/dark-mode-support-in-webkit/

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Research direction
Implement CSS media query for prefers color scheme: dark, ensure images have transparent backgrounds, and test on macOS Safari and Chrome Canary for Android.
Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
CSSGit
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75