The View Transitions API is beautiful and I can't wait for it to become widely available.

I've soured on SPAs in the past few years. So much more can be done with standards than people realize. SPAs were best for specific use cases but we made them the default for everything. Marketing pages are built in React! Basic pages with marketing copy have a build step and require hundreds of megabytes of dependencies.

Like the author I've transitioned to a mantra of "let the web be the web."

But we have a whole generation of developers and designers that have come of age with SPA and mobile-like ux as standard. Getting everyone back to basics and understanding hypermedia, markup languages and cascading styles is a big ask.

"The View Transitions API is beautiful and I can't wait for it to become widely available."

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"The view transitions API is a disaster."

I love HN.

Less is more, usually.