"The aptly named View Transition API is a powerful way to create animated transitions between two states. I use the word 'powerful', because the View Transition API is powerful - more powerful than anyone would expect. You can navigate between pages, or modify the DOM, or meddle with your webpage in a number of other ways, and have an animation between the two states."
"It is incredibly powerful, and one could write quite the book (or several) explaining all the features and intricacies. There is plenty of surface-level view transition content on the web, but today we'll be getting hands-on with some examples. Thus, for the sake of brevity and in the Piccalilli way, I won't be covering every nuance but instead covering some cases and applicable patterns that you can use to apply view transitions in the real world."
"In my opinion, the best cases for implementing view transitions are as a way to draw attention to an element, convey movement, and help users remain in context. While we've long been able to do animations with CSS and JavaScript, the View Transition API gives us further options. Notably, it handles some of the complexities of animations with many moving parts for us."
View Transition API enables animated transitions between DOM states or full page navigations, creating tweened animations when navigating between pages or manipulating the DOM. The API simplifies coordination of complex animations with multiple moving parts and provides options beyond traditional CSS and JavaScript animations. Best use cases include drawing attention to elements, conveying movement, and maintaining user context during changes. Browser support exists in recent releases of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari but varies in supported functionality. Practical adoption involves learning several implementation details and avoiding common gotchas. Cross-document transitions allow continuity across separate documents during navigation.
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