Back in 2010, when I first started learning WordPress, smoother, faster page loads was a dream.
I still remember a classic CSS-Tricks video on using AJAX to make a page load feel quicker. It was a clever solution for the time, a way to fight that jarring “white flash” between pages. We were essentially hacking our way toward the fluid experience we all wanted.
Fast forward 15 years.
Now, that old wish is becoming a reality, not with a hack, but with a native browser feature. The new View Transitions API, being brought to WordPress via an experimental plugin1, does exactly what we were trying to achieve all those years ago—but seamlessly and elegantly.
It’s amazing to see how far JavaScript, browsers, and WordPress have evolved. What once required complex workarounds is now becoming a built-in standard for a better user experience.
Kudos to Felix Arntz and the entire WordPress Core Performance Team for this fantastic initiative!
Glad to see this in action. It’s been a long time coming.
- WordPress.org plugin link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/view-transitions/ ↩︎
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