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Jony Ive and the philosophy of design

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Jony Ive’s Philosophy of Design

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.

Giambattista Vico's Design of Philosophy

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?

Sitting on a train, you don’t need to do anything—you just move forward. It’s the perfect mindset for writing.

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Soothing typographic train rides for chilled writing

Why we want to know how things are made.

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iA Notebook Wins Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025

The iA Notebook has just won the Red Dot “Best of the Best” in Product Design 2025.

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The highest distinction for pioneering designs

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 fired him without actually firing him.

Like moss on a star destroyer

Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

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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”.

Beware when manipulating the coordinates of the View Transition’s ::view-transition-group(*) pseudo. Depending on where you read those coordinates from, you might end up with layout jumps when writing them back. This post details the pitfalls and how to deal with them, unlocking more performant animations on the ::view-transition-group() pseudo along the way.

Martin Winkler published a package that polyfills Element.matchContainer to get notified in script when a Container Query matches/unmatches. Under the hood, it uses a StyleObserver.

The all new iA Writer for Windows

Last December we released the iA Writer for Windows 2.0 beta as part of the iA Winterfest giveaway. After further tweaks and testing we're pleased to announce that the update has been released.

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