Web Development

I can understand the reasoning, but I would have weighed the significant benefit over the little "complexity"/content increase.

The color inversion is a significant effect. It doesn't change anything for those that use their own error pages, but significantly improves the situation for people who land on these pages and are bothered by light mode.

/edit: Their PR close comment was super short (non-telling), but they later commented with some reasonable reasoning that better describes their point of view and considerations.

I agree with this decision. Don't make error pages more complicated than they are.

The team's position for rejecting this seems reasonable, but then you look at the actual PR and you see that's one extra line of html on the error pages and I can't help but feel like it wasn't a big deal to accept this.

Waaaait - I recently implemented a simple dark mode for a simple page and thought color-scheme declares intent/support not influence how it is being rendered. I thought I still had to define dark coloring.

I just checked and to my surprise the browser indeed serves different default/root coloring when dark color scheme is declared [as well]. :O This means I can simplify my CSS.

I must have been misled when skimming by "specifies compatibility" and "Component authors must use the prefers-color-scheme media feature to support the color schemes on the rest of the elements." missing the browser behavior change description.

If you want to see this simple change in Nginx, they're running a poll here: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/discussions/584

Honestly, the only person using my sites is me, and I have dark reader anyway lol