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Toe Dipping Into View Transitions
21.2.2025
The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first.
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Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())
12.2.2025
We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the viewport width is as easy these days as easy as writing 100vw, but …
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Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running
31.1.2025
When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This happens because of the ::view-transition pseudo element – the one that contains all animated snapshots – gets overlayed on top
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Keeping the page...
What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?
29.1.2025
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities...
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
23.12.2024
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …
A CSS Wishlist for 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)
20.9.2024
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many Almanac entries published and a full Guide guide on the way, I thought I was ready to …
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CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-21)
30.8.2024
View Transitions are one of the most awesome features CSS has shipped in recent times. Its title is self-explanatory: transitions between views are possible with just CSS, even across pages of the same origin! What’s more interesting is its …
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CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting
19.7.2024
From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with a long agenda of new features and improvements coming to language. If 2023 brought us incredible advances like …
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Making CSS View-Transitions Easy with Velvette
19.1.2024
Learn how to effortlessly implement smooth CSS view-transitions with Velvette, a useful library designed to tackle common challenges and enhance user experiences in web applications
Animating Multi-Page Navigations with Browser View Transitions and Astro
3.10.2023
A beginner-friendly guide that walks you through the use of the Browser View Transitions API with Astro for a smoother navigation experience
WDRL — Edition 311: People-first leadership, Scoped CSS and Grid View Transitions
3.5.2023
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Spring and the caprioles of April’s weather here in Germany kept me so busy that I couldn’t send out a condensed edition earlier. We had a rainy month, and my split role of being a market gardener and web developer (currently working as a Scrum Master) is already challenging. But with...
WDRL — Edition 306: Icon-Quiz, Dynamic viewports, view transitions, and natural input design.
6.12.2022
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Will you recognize what the icons in the following link want to explain? I thought it’s a good quiz to ask my international friends here to find out how well these icons work. Now think about using only icons for an interface again. The idea of building these icons is to reduce friction...