Hallelujah! We’re finally getting our two wishes for CSS animations and transitions:
- Animating to and from
display: none;for the sake of enter/exit animations.- Animating to and from the intrinsic size of an element (such as
height: auto;).
Finally! View transitions for multi-page apps (AKA websites) will be landing in Chrome soon—here’s hoping other browsers follow suit. Mozilla are up for it. Apple are, as usual, silent on their intentions.
Nice to see a blog post of mine referenced to show that this is a highly-requested feature. Blogging gets results, folks!
The fascinating pre-history of steam power, illustrated with interactive widgets.
This is a very handy tip if you’re adding view transitions to your website!
Some great ideas for view transitionts in here! Also:
If you look at any of the examples on a browser that does not support them, the pages still function just fine. The transitions are an extra that’s layered on top if and when your browser supports them. Another concrete example of progressive enhancement in practice.
This is why prefers-reduced-motion matters.
This is such a great clear explanation from Lynn on how to add some tasteful parallax depth to scrolling pages.
I can see myself almost certainly needing to use this clever technique at some point so I’m going to squirrel it away now for future me.
I like the split-screen animated format for explaining this topic.
I think Bruce is onto something here:
It seems to me that browsers could do more to protect their users. Browsers are, after all, user agents that protect the visitor from pop-ups, malicious sites, autoplaying videos and other denizens of the underworld. They should also protect users against nausea and migraines, regardless of whether the developer thought to (or had the tools available to).
So, I propose that browsers should never respect
scroll-behavior: smooth;if a user prefers reduced motion, regardless of whether a developer has set the media query.
A case study with equal emphasis on animation and performance.
This is how you write up a technique! Cassie takes an SVG pattern she used on the Clearleft “services” page and explains it in step-by-step detail, complete with explanatory animated diagrams.
Given the widespread browser support for prefers-reduced-motion now, this approach makes a lot of sense.
This is a really nice introduction to CSS transitions with interactive demos you can tinker with.
Cassie’s enthusiasm for fun and interesting SVG animation shines through in her writing!
The latest edition in this wonderful series of science-fictional typography has some truly twisty turbolift tangents.
This is superbly in-depth and easy-to-follow article from Cassie—everything you need to know about motion paths in SVG and CSS! It’s worth reading just for the wonderful examples.
How cool is this!!?
Tom took one of the core ideas from my talk at Beyond Tellerrand and turned it into this animated CodePen!
Cassie’s excellent talk on SVG animation is well worth your time.
A handy tool for tweaking the animations in your SVGs.