This was introduced in e0236646
For 1.5 years we did not find a case that needed it (besides the
`a` tag hover state, that is not obvious if it was needed or it was
used as an example)
It is not obvious if this solution was a good idea. The concern was
that `body.night-mode` is more specific than `body` and some styles
might override others less specific in cases we might not want that.
Of course, we want that in the majority of cases, and css-specificity
rules are not simple to comprehend.
Good further reading:
http://cssspecificity.com/https://specificity.keegan.st/
The added complexity of the resulting styles and the added code that
might not serve any practical purpose seem to not be worth it.
This commit prepares the frontend code to be consumed by webpack.
It is a hack: In theory, modules should be declaring and importing the
modules they depend on and the globals they expose directly.
However, that requires significant per-module work, which we don't
really want to block moving our toolchain to webpack on.
So we expose the modules by setting window.varName = varName; as
needed in the js files.
This adds custom CSS through JavaScript for things that do not
scope well and will override other inherited styles.
This should ONLY be used for problematic CSS that has no obvious
or easy CSS-only solution.
(Specifically, we need this for the "default link" styling, which is
hard to override because we don't want to start winning ties due to
specificity that we would not have won in the light theme).
Tim Abbott
Boris Yankov
Steve Howell
Armaan Ahluwalia
Brock Whittaker