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connor 8ed007a75f Add a theme toggle to the nav, and centralise the palette
Three states rather than two: system (follow the OS), light, dark. A two-state
toggle cannot express "just do what my laptop does", which is the state most
people actually want.

Two details that are easy to get wrong and were both handled deliberately:

- The dark rules are guarded with :root:not([data-theme="light"]). Without that
  guard, choosing light does nothing on a machine whose OS is set to dark,
  because the media query keeps winning -- the toggle appears to work in one
  direction only.
- The stored theme is applied by an inline script placed ahead of any rendered
  content, so there is no flash of the wrong palette on load. A deferred script
  would repaint after first paint, visibly.

localStorage access is wrapped in try/catch: it throws outright in some
private-browsing modes, and a theme preference is not worth a broken page.

The palette moved out of all four templates into _theme.html, which also removes
four near-identical copies of the nav CSS that had already started to drift.
Tests assert the toggle, the guard, the pre-paint ordering, and that no page
redeclares the palette locally.
2026-09-08 18:00:01 -04:00

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{#- Shared palette, theme toggle and nav styling.
Three states, not two: system (follow the OS), light, dark. The dark rules
are guarded with :not([data-theme="light"]) so an explicit light choice wins
over a dark OS setting -- without that guard the toggle only works one way.
-#}
<script>
// Runs before first paint. Applying the stored theme from a deferred script
// would show a flash of the wrong palette on every page load.
try {
const t = localStorage.getItem('theme');
if (t === 'dark' || t === 'light') document.documentElement.dataset.theme = t;
} catch (e) { /* private mode, blocked storage: fall back to the OS setting */ }
</script>
<style>
:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
--fg:#16181d; --bg:#fdfdfc; --muted:#6b7280; --rule:#e4e4e7;
--accent:#7c3aed; --card:#fff; --sel:#f3f0ff;
--pos:#15803d; --neg:#b91c1c; --warn:#b45309;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root:not([data-theme="light"]) {
--fg:#e8e8ea; --bg:#141416; --muted:#9ca3af; --rule:#2a2a2e;
--accent:#a78bfa; --card:#1b1b1f; --sel:#241f36;
--pos:#4ade80; --neg:#f87171; --warn:#fbbf24;
}
}
:root[data-theme="dark"] {
--fg:#e8e8ea; --bg:#141416; --muted:#9ca3af; --rule:#2a2a2e;
--accent:#a78bfa; --card:#1b1b1f; --sel:#241f36;
--pos:#4ade80; --neg:#f87171; --warn:#fbbf24;
}
.sitenav { display:flex; gap:.15rem; flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
.sitenav a { color:var(--muted); text-decoration:none; font-size:.85rem;
padding:.2rem .6rem; border-radius:6px; border:1px solid transparent; }
.sitenav a:hover { color:var(--fg); background:var(--rule); }
.sitenav a.here { color:var(--accent); border-color:var(--rule); font-weight:600; }
#theme { margin-left:.35rem; font:inherit; font-size:.95rem; line-height:1;
background:transparent; color:var(--muted); cursor:pointer;
border:1px solid var(--rule); border-radius:6px; padding:.22rem .45rem; }
#theme:hover { color:var(--fg); }
</style>