- From: Josh Tumath via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:20:56 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> So, if you're trying to use analytics to tell if a lot of your users have darkmode turned on in their OS (and would thus benefit from having you spend time on darkmode styles), that'll still work, since you presumably are _not_ setting the `meta` to force light mode, as that would be silly (the page's used color scheme will default to `light` anyway). (Or you can just make your analytics check if the `meta` is set to one of the forcing values and ignore that page, whatever.) Yes, agreed. There are, however, some cases where we still need accurate analytics. For example, our user research shows we should not use dark themes on pages for children; it is better to only use a light colour scheme. But we would still want to measure if they have enabled dark mode. They're unlikely to navigate to pages with content for adults, so we wouldn't be able to accurately measure if they've enabled dark mode. But that's just my example of where it's still useful/necessary to get the user's actual preference. There are no doubt others. -- GitHub Notification of comment by JoshTumath Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10249#issuecomment-3234150414 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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