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It's worth noting that the Speculation Rules API and the View Transition API are not stable in Firefox and therefore aren't supported by all major browser.


This browser compatibility gap is a crucial point - without Firefox support, these APIs can't be considered production-ready for sites that need cross-browser consistency, undermining the article's central argument.


yeah, if it's not in firefox it doesn't count.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823896

also mobile safari so basically all iphones.


It does appear to be supported by iOS Safari 18.2+, which is the majority of iOS users.

https://caniuse.com/?search=view%20transitions


Basically it is supported just in Chromium & derivates then. Hard pass.


For me, this is the key takeaway from the article, leveraging experimental browser extensions for preloading future pages. In other words, exactly what a properly thought-out SPA does.




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