{"id":26071,"date":"2019-07-25T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26071"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:40:41","slug":"wysiwyg-and-dark-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/wysiwyg-and-dark-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"WYSIWYG and Dark Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/07\/25\/apple-meet-wysiwyg-its-the-way-macs-used-to-work\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/07\/25\/apple-meet-wysiwyg-its-the-way-macs-used-to-work\/\">\n<p>Those of us who work fairly constantly in Dark Mode have come to understand that white is black and the reverse when working with text, but we continue to rely on colour. Any image editor which inverted its colours or their lightness values just because you switched from one Mode to the other would be laughed out of court. Yet that&rsquo;s pretty well what Apple&rsquo;s standard rich text editor does, and without your even having to change Mode.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A little experimentation demonstrates that, rather than TextEdit using the colour you selected, it chose the light lilac instead, but just to fool you, when a dark background is enabled, it changed the display colour to what you thought you were using.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: Those of us who work fairly constantly in Dark Mode have come to understand that white is black and the reverse when working with text, but we continue to rely on colour. Any image editor which inverted its colours or their lightness values just because you switched from one Mode to the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-07-25T19:40:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"c917174c-bf00-4a65-a07d-8c8fc237892c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-25T19:40:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyRcXTL8ASmWgfYyPwjeJLA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[566,1805,30,1609,1050],"class_list":["post-26071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-color","tag-dark-mode","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-textedit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26072,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions\/26072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}