View transitions + speculative rules
July 19, 2024
I’ve been very interested in the potential of view transitions since they were called navigation transitions. Recently, they’ve landed in Chrome stable v126 with a more stable API. Initially it was a SPA-only API but has now been opened up to MPA, first with an experimental meta tag and now via a CSS at-rule.
Either I’ve been reading past speaker Ryan Seddon’s mind, or he mine, or there’s something in the aether, but I’ve recently been thinking about how the combination of View Transitions and speculative rules for pre-fetching and preloading might impact how we architect web apps.
Stay tuned for more on this