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Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility (diff.wikimedia.org)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Maybe. Does it make a big performance difference which css (dark reader or delivered by wiki) is used?

Is it known how the default to dark mode setting is persisted if let's say a plugin removed all the Wikipedia cookies on window close? A get or post parameter?

Either way it's a good thing that wiki offers a dark mode.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    lots of dom modifications

    That's good to know. These modifications are needed to replace the style sheet details, I guess?

    passes around far too much data between processes.

    What does this mean? Do you have a link where I could read up on the details? Thanks.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Webextensions get their own webprocess as well as running in the website. I don’t have a link but if you read their source they just pass a lot of data to their process to determine things (last i looked some years ago).

    There is a trade off of executing more things on the site vs transferring a lot of data. Either way it’s a heavy extension.

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