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Here's that directional View Transitions demo we talked about over lunch, @twnsnd.com chrome.dev/view-transit... The toolkit automatically injects from-<name> and to-<name> View Transition Types based on navigation origin and destination. The routes are defined in a routemap.

chrome.devNavigation Types Demo - View Transitions Toolkit

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Bramus

@bram.us

7 May

We, Chrome, are currently working on a way to do route matching in purely CSS as well: drafts.csswg.org/css-navigati... (draft spec). This addition would remove the need for any script to achieve directional View Transitions 🥳

drafts.csswg.orgCSS Route Matching

Ryan Townsend

@twnsnd.com

7 May

🙏🙏🙏 I remember discussing this with @nomster.bsky.social but didn’t clock that it overlapped with VTs.

Noam Rosenthal

@nomster.bsky.social

7 May

Yea all of those things are connected... Declarative updates are about how content is updated, and route-based CSS is about how the navigation is styled.

Jakob E

@jakob-e.bsky.social

7 May

I’m hoping this does not become RegEx in CSS… still deserves a like for guts 😜😘