12
The Case for Tri-State Dark Mode Toggles
(www.bram.us)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
12 points (92.9% liked)
Web Development
5796 readers
13 users here now
Welcome to the web development community! This is a place to post, discuss, get help about, etc. anything related to web development
What is web development?
Web development is the process of creating websites or web applications
Rules/Guidelines
- Follow the programming.dev site rules
- Keep content related to web development
- If what you're posting relates to one of the related communities, crosspost it into there to help them grow
- If youre posting an article older than two years put the year it was made in brackets after the title
Related Communities
- !html@programming.dev
- !css@programming.dev
- !uiux@programming.dev
- !a11y@programming.dev
- !react@programming.dev
- !vuejs@programming.dev
- !webassembly@programming.dev
- !javascript@programming.dev
- !typescript@programming.dev
- !nodejs@programming.dev
- !astro@programming.dev
- !angular@programming.dev
- !tauri@programming.dev
- !sveltejs@programming.dev
- !pwa@programming.dev
Wormhole
Some webdev blogs
Not sure what to post in here? Want some web development related things to read?
Heres a couple blogs that have web development related content
- https://frontendfoc.us/ - [RSS]
- https://wesbos.com/blog
- https://davidwalsh.name/ - [RSS]
- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/
- https://sia.codes/posts/ - [RSS]
- https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ - [RSS]
- https://www.bennadel.com/ - [RSS]
- https://web.dev/ - [RSS]
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Unpopular opinion: I don't think this is worth the screen real estate it takes up, even if small. It's just too specific of a feature that does not inherently need changing on the fly.
You should configure your light / dark mode preferences in your OS and browser, and sites can just pick them up from there. Changing them on the fly is unnecessary.
And for websites, you should probably just use those dark mode extensions anyways if that's your preference. Even if a site doesn't support it, you'll get most of the way there.