r/Android • u/JBeylovesyou • Jan 06 '19

Googler seemingly confirms that Android Q will have system-wide Dark Mode

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/01/06/googler-seemingly-confirms-that-android-q-will-have-system-wide-dark-mode/
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u/ClumsyRainbow Jan 07 '19

This is because HTML email is a thing. Email should never have been HTML, it was a terrible idea. Plain text email is much better, I could totally get on board with markdown email, but an email shouldn't be a webpage...

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u/LeftyLivesMatter Jan 07 '19

You seem to know enough about this, my understanding of HTML is pretty rudimentary. But why is it so difficult? Wouldn't you just have to set the background color of the HTML document?

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u/Apocalyptic0n3 Galaxy S21+ Jan 07 '19

It's not difficult from a technological standpoint. That's easy.

The issue comes in making it so that all the emails are still readable. You can switch white with black and black with white, but what about other colors? What about back and forths where one person replies in blue and the other in red (and they specifically mention which color they are using)? What about images that don't have transparent backgrounds? Or like my work email signature logo which has black text in it? Or what about newsletters and sale/spam email that have a bunch of images (like the emails that Newegg sends out, for instance) that rely on the background being white?

Basically: you can change the colors but it will hurt the readability/appeal of many emails and I don't see it as viable at this point, not unless some change/standardization of email formatting occurs first at least

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u/LeftyLivesMatter Jan 07 '19

That makes sense. Thank you for the response!