A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If you thought we were done with View Transitions, guess again! A feature Chrome is working on, is “Scoped View Transitions”, which allow you to scope a VT to a subtree of the DOM. We are actively looking for feedback on this one.
At Middlesbrough Front End 2025 I gave a talk about some of the more exotic applications of View Transitions
Slides + Recording of the talk “Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions” I gave at WebExpo.
For this year’s Google I/O, I recorded the session “Web animations today and tomorrow”. Check it out to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs.
border-radius with a View Transition, revisited
Instead of duplicating an animation on the ::view-transition-group pseudo, you can also rely on CSS transitions on the original element … if you’ve set it up correctly.
In April I attended #BlinkOn, the conference for web platform contributors in the Chromium open source project. At the conference I gave a presentation about “CSS Parser Extensions”, a wild idea I have to fix CSS polyfilling once and for all.
If you didn’t know, polyfilling CSS features is extremely hard, mainly because the CSS Parser discards what it does not understand. So what if, instead of having authors write their own parser and cascade to polyfill a CSS feature, they could teach the parser some new tricks?
After a wonderful week in San Francisco and Mountain View, the week ended in a disaster when my colleague and friend Adam was told to find another role at Google – Roughly translated: they laid him off without actually laying him off.
border-radius with a View Transition To smoothly animate things like borders as part of a View Transition, you need to duplicate that animation onto the ::view-transition-group. For best effect, have the View Transition separately capture the background and foreground of the element you’re animating.
New in Chrome 134 on Android: the ability to place the Address Bar (aka “Omnibox”) at the bottom. To enable it, go to Chrome’s Settings, locate and tap “Address Bar”, and choose “Bottom”.