<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Thanks for the response Hannes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Then I vote that we default to system settings. That is what their system is requesting, after all. The fact that we ignored it historically seems to be a weak justification to ignore what is actively being requested now. Having the default be system settings makes more sense imo.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">And it's not like browsers or OS' are defaulting to Dark Mode -- that's something you have to opt-in to. So, the javadoc website is merely marching to the beat set by the user's choice on the OS/Browser.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">But if you still disagree, then that's fine. Turns out there are different extensions that can do this for me anyways. Even on my fully locked down browser, it looks like I can download Dark Reader for Firefox, allowing me to fix my problem.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 6:52 AM Hannes Wallnoefer <<a href="mailto:hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com" target="_blank">hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Thanks for your feedback. Among the options you mention, I think following the system setting by default is the one I like best. The reason we kept the light theme as default was to introduce the feature with as little disruption as possible, but I’m open
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Hello <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_-7541086712034924267m_-6734050869120131940m_4465883830521830813plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:javadoc-dev@openjdk.org" target="_blank">@javadoc-dev@openjdk.org</a>,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I am forced to use a browser that wipes history, cookies, sessions, etc. on close, leaving behind only bookmarks and settings. That means that I have to reapply Dark Mode multiple times a day (on the
ea Java 26 docs). It's not that big a deal, but I would appreciate a url (better yet, the %s search engine!) that has dark mode activated as part of the url. Either that, or have the default be system setting (or give me a url that does that).</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Thank you for your time and consideration.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">David Alayachew</div>
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