The Android backend for prefers-color-scheme didn't get on Firefox 67, it's
just landed on mozilla-central, will be shipped in Firefox 68.

Thanks,
hiro

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 5:38 AM Mats Palmgren <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Summary:
> The 'prefers-color-scheme' media feature is way for pages to detect
> if the user prefers a light or dark color theme.  The values are
> 'light', 'dark', and 'no-preference'.  If the "resist fingerprinting"
> feature is active we always match 'light'.  If the media type is
> 'print' we always match 'light'.  Otherwise, we try to determine
> a value from the user's current "desktop theme".  This should work
> well on recent versions of OSX and Windows.  On Linux, we don't
> know how to determine a value from the system so we match
> 'no-preference' there - help wanted:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525775
>
> Bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494034
>
> Link to standard:
> https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-color-scheme
>
> Platform coverage: All platforms
>
> Estimated or target release: Firefox 67
>
> Preference behind which this will be implemented:
> The feature is always enabled, but there is an existing hidden
> preference to set a value (integer), ui.systemUsesDarkTheme:
> 0 = light
> 1 = dark
> 2 = no-preference
>
> Is this feature enabled by default in sandboxed iframes?
> Yes, but if widget look-and-feel features are disabled in
> sandboxed iframes then we'll match 'no-preference'.
>
> DevTools bug: none
>
> Do other browser engines implement this?
> Safari has implemented this feature and it's available in their
> Nightly build, but it's not yet shipped AFAICT.
> https://paulmillr.com/posts/using-dark-mode-in-css/ is a post about
> implementation of this feature in Safari;
>
> https://webkit.org/blog/8475/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-68/
> documents its addition.
>
> It appears Chrome is actively working on it:
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=889087
>
> web-platform-tests:
> https://w3c-test.org/css/mediaqueries/prefers-color-scheme.html
>
> Is this feature restricted to secure contexts? No
>
> Credit also goes to Jonathan Kingston who wrote the initial
> implementation of this feature.
>
>
> /Mats
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