Sometimes a combination of methods will be the most effective route. Moreover, there’s nothing saying we can only use one method. On the other hand, if your project needs to support legacy browsers, then another approach will need to do instead. If you are doing a large project, for example, you might go with CSS properties to help wrangle a large codebase. The “right” method comes down to the requirements of your project. But a server-side solution like this is useful in persisting the user’s theme choice across page reloads, as we will see later. This method has an obvious downside: the page needs to be refreshed for the toggle to take place. I am using a GET request (URL params) for the purpose of this demonstration.Īnd, yes, we can swap stylesheets just like we did in the second method. Then, we let our code (PHP in this case) apply the appropriate body class when the page is reloaded. We can have the user send a GET or POST request. This is a great approach if you prefer working directly in the markup. If we’re already working with a server-side language, say PHP, then we can use it instead of JavaScript. Here’s a script for a button that will toggle that class, for example: // Select the buttonĬonst btn = document.querySelector('.btn-toggle') ītn.addEventListener('click', function(). If this were disclosed before purchase, it would be a 5 star app.The trick here is to swap out a class that can be a hook for changing a style anywhere on the page.
#Dark reader dark full#
Dark Reader works beautifully, but requires full access to webpage contents ("Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages") and browsing history ("Can see when you visit all webpages").
#Dark reader dark mac#
Original review: The Mac App Store should really list the required permissions for apps.
#Dark reader dark update#
The developer's contention that "Every update passes manual review by Apple" is hardly adequate assuagement here are a few headlines from September 2018 that a quick search turned up: "Mac App Store apps are stealing user data", "More malicious apps found in Mac App Store that are stealing user data", and "Top-grossing Mac App Store app steals users’ browser histories". The issue is not whether or not the developer is currently exploiting these permissions, but that they *can* be exploited, unlike Content Blocker extensions (e.g., Wipr, whose preference pane reports that it "does not have permission to read or transmit content from any webpages." The warning text I quoted in my original review below comes from Dark Reader's own preferences pane in Safari!
Update: Have removed another star in light of the developer's disingenuous response. I'm just tired of having a bunch applications for extensions that don't do much cluttering up my applications folder. In an ideal world, users should barely have to touch the Dark Reader options.Īdditionally, I wish the settings were adjustable from within the mac app, rather than just in the toolbar. I'm not sure if it'd raise a security issue to have an extension sending browsing information back to the extension's developers, but it would definitely make the extension a lot more seamless, or if it's possible to anonymize that data. I wish, though, that the community of users could submit the custom theme to a list of websites that benefit from a settings change, so that over time Dark Reader could adjust the settings on behalf of users. Obviously, that's why they added the "set up a custom theme for current website" option. For those that don't look great, often times, switching from dynamic to filter mode fixes everything. Dark Reader in dynamic mode works great for about 9 out of 10 websites.