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CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks.

CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

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