[woutr_be]

While I agree with you that it's super annoying to be browsing in dark mode, just to open an app or website that hasn't implemented this.

But I disagree that Apple should be doing all the work, I really don't want them pushing their design opinions even further upon us (no matter how great they might be)

Not sure if this exists yet (although I think I've seen it before); a CSS parser that will automatically generate all the correct media queries to have a dark mode. Done by smartly inverting colours, possibly giving the chance to quickly override them yourself.

[chrismorgan]

This is basically what email clients have been settling on doing, recently—though they have the luxury of working with a static resource, and not needing to handle any dynamic stuff.

https://litmus.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-dark-mode-for-... is a good article about this. We just released this sort of functionality for Fastmail’s webmail within the last few days, too, matching what Litmus calls a partial colour invert. We find that it doesn’t satisfy quite everyone, but the overall experience is much improved. I myself use light mode for my work email and dark for my personal email (partly to distinguish them, partly so I’m testing it—otherwise I’d prefer light mode), and this general approach has produced very good results in all but one case I’ve experienced so far (and that one was still acceptable).

[IfOnlyYouKnew]

Chrome on Mac allowed you to choose between four or five different algorithms last I checked. At least this was somewhere in the chrome://flags of canary, about half a year ago?

None of it is perfect. I know programmers believe anything that's not software or brewing a flat white should be automated, but dark designs are inherently difficult because the pleasant ridge is narrow, with contrast always close to being too high or too low. As of yet, it really need a designer's eye.