Little moment of joy today: Web Weekly #190 includes a reference to vtbag.dev! Seeing your own project pop up in a newsletter you genuinely enjoy reading is such a lovely surprise. Made my day. Vielen Dank! 😊

As a reply to an original post by @joyofcode.xyz that neatly shows the different stages of getting aspect ratio right in text-morphing view transitions, and to a brilliant article by @jakearchibald.com that explains it all in great depth with lots of fun.

If you enjoy @Bramus' View Transitions Toolbox, you should definitely also take a look at @vtbag.dev Utensil-Drawer: vtbag.dev/tools/utensi...

Great result! Love seeing Astro + Svelte working so nicely together. As for the vtbag.dev part: it was actually the other way round: From @fubits.dev I learned that trick of not redefining swap(), but executing the swap directly in the astro:before-swap event listener.

It would be nice if sibling-index could enumerate the position of pseudo elements. There is not much use in indexing ::before and ::after but I would have plenty of use cases for ::view-transition-group(*), especially in combination with nested view transition groups or scoped view transitions.

Chapeau and h/t to you. 🎩👏✨ I hope you enjoy your well deserved time off! The lovely thing is that, despite the sadness that you will no longer be the guardian and champion of the Astro Docs, most the replies carry a sense of gratitude and fond memories.

If you like Adam's article, you might also want to have a look at vtbag.dev/vector-demo/ and fun-with-view-transitions.pages.dev/episode/7/page

Sarah and Yan are both absolutely incredible people to have in your team and are a massive part of Astro's success. If you're looking to make your docs better, you'd be missing the opportunity of your life by not hiring them!

==> SPREAD THE WORD Hands-on tutorial for mastering View Transitions! Seven interactive exercises guide you from basics to advanced techniques: morphing snapshots, healing text, and more. Code at github.com/vtbag/fun-wi..., Episodes on vtbag.dev/fwvt/welcome/

Yes, I saw it on the list: cross-document view transitions including `link rel=expect`.

(Element)-scoped view transitions are going to change the game once they hit baseline!

Because it seems to be the thing right now:

Firefox view transition support is getting better and better.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

It crashed often, but it was still a lot of fun back then. Just a handful of tags, no CSS, no scripts.

Happens to the best, @nerdy.dev 😃 One way or the other.

Let's open today's window on the Advent calendar! @jp-knj.bsky.social writes about the different ways @astro.build and @nextjs.org have chosen to integrate view transitions:

Often it is better to reuse the built-in fade animations from the user agent stylesheet (-ua-view-transition-fade-in, -ua-view-transition-fade-out) rather than define your own: vtbag.dev/tips/over-ex...

You know Xmas is coming when ... Navigation API, document.activeViewTransition, and soon 🥁: view transition types1

Cool for many other things too, but especially cool for cross-document view transitions: finally you can tell front ⏩ from back ⏪! Honestly, trying to replace the default cross-fade with directional animations without the Navigation API is a bit like driving without turn signals.

A truly passionate article from someone who genuinely loves view transitions and knows exactly how to use them in a way that really supports the user experience, not just for the sake of the effect.

Now everyone’s posting CSS view transition beginner guides, huh? Time to bring back a classic. It’s not just about @view-transition, it also covers reduced motion prefs, the need for global styling, and, most importantly, introduces you to render blocking. Episode One of Fun With View Transitions!

For some mysterious reason, Google Search has decided to ignore vtbag.dev. Feel free to use any other search engine. Or simply add this to your system prompt: > If it has anything to do with view transitions, check vtbag.dev too!

___ 👉 When view transitions fail *only* on mobile, you know the universe is testing you. 📱🐛🌌

Quite a lot has happened in the View Transition spec this month! Check out the recent changes at vtbag.dev/basics/api/#...

It still feels like magic every time: with just Level 1 of the View Transition API, the <ClientRouter> brings cross-document view transitions to your Astro JS site. Dive into this new article in The Bag to celebrate Firefox joining the party!

If you liked the video, you might also enjoy clicking through the CodePen: codepen.io/martrapp/pen...

When you scroll down on vtbag.dev, you can find a few view transition demos at the bottom of the navigation sidebar that work perfectly even in Firefox v144. Now guess which ones?

As of today, every major browser supports Level 1 of the View Transition API! To celebrate, here is a short video freshly captured in Firefox 144.

Do you have any smaller/under-the-radar CSS sites/people that you follow? Looking for blogs, YouTube channels, or anyone who just shares cool CSS stuff. Reply if you know any, and look at the replies for new people/sites to follow 😊

Wow, hard to believe this was made over 2 years ago! Just tweak some CSS properties and let the browser figure out the transition. Why don’t we see animations like this on more websites by now?

For everyone who cannot wait until native cross-document view transitions arrive: Your Astrojs sites with <ClientRouter> will already support view transitions for same-origin navigation in Firefox 144!

Haha, that was easy, I read a good explainer ;-) vtbag.dev/basics/api/#...

Don’t trink and vibe! That might turn out to be very useful one day if I ever want to vibe-code half drunk. Please take note: botl.new redirects to bolt.new ;-)

Hey friends out there with access to Safari's latest Technology Preview: Does vtbag.dev/basics/test-... light up the indicators for the active view transition property and Navigation API in your browser?

Interesting question from Kevin Powell: having several view transition actions on the same page, is it possible to run them independently?

We all are craving ;-)

As of right now: Freshly minted in the view transition spec, official and all! drafts.csswg.org/css-view-tra...

Exciting news about Chrome 139! As @digitaltransient.bsky.social just posted, all the new view transition features that were hidden behind flags in the Canary versions are now available in regular Chrome.

Big thanks to @kevinpowell.co for showcasing my site in the examples. That was such a fun surprise!

This might sound extremely niche, but better to be prepared than sorry: Firefox will soon support same-page view transitions. More precisely: Level 1 view transitions. That means document.startViewTransition() with a single update callback and no view transition types.

Yes, that is what people often say. But “minimally functional” can still turn into “mildly maddening” if you do not realize you might need to help the browser out with a few extra directives to handle render blocking on larger pages.

View transitions are already looking pretty promising in Firefox Nightly. It’s actually kind of fun (view transitions are always fun)) to see how much of it is working now.

👜✨ Did you see? The 7th is out! The brand new episode of Fun With View Transitions! Playful curves, chained and merged transitions and much more. Half demo, half mischief! Steal the tricks, spark ideas, and bring fresh magic to your own site.

Fun with View Transitions, soon with even more fun! 👜✨ Next up: we are playing Tower of Hanoi! A grab bag of delightful tricks, oddities, and “wait, that works?” moments awaits you. Includes: a <select> element that transitions like it means it. Coming soon to a browser near you.

Explore entertaining ways to toggle between dark and light themes using view transitions! ☀️🌙

🤯 Ooh what?! I honestly had no idea about that! And it works like a charm! ✨ Chrome 139.0.7244.0 canary with "Experimental Web Platform features" enabled. vtbag.dev/basics/hide-... View transitions clipped at their container!