feat: cross-fade page navigations with view transitions - #185
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Opt same-origin navigations into browser-native cross-document view transitions so page loads cross-fade instead of flashing white. The navbar is snapshotted separately so it holds still during the fade, and the transition is disabled under prefers-reduced-motion. Browsers without support (e.g. Firefox) keep plain full-page loads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
@view-transition { navigation: auto; }), so page loads cross-fade instead of flashing whiteview-transition-nameso it holds perfectly still while only the page content fadesprefers-reduced-motionCSS-only change: these remain real full-page navigations, so the inline navbar and carousel scripts are unaffected. Chrome/Edge 126+ and Safari 18.2+ get the cross-fade; browsers without support (e.g. Firefox) ignore the at-rule and keep todays behavior. Combined with the already-enabled
prefetchAll, navigation should now look near-seamless.Test plan
npm run buildpasses; verified the@view-transitionblocks andview-transition-namesurvive CSS bundling intodist/_astro/Layout.*.css🤖 Generated with Claude Code