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Today marks 21 years since I registered my first domain and started blogging.

21 freakin' years!

The first 5 years on that old domain are lost to the sands of time (this site has posts back to 2008 in the archive) but it's no great loss. ¹

The knowledge that I have been doing this for so long and even if I take breaks, which I seem to do with increasing regularity, I always come back is the reassuring part.

# The built-in network effects of major platforms mean many don't see the point of having their own site. Such a shame. It doesn't have to be a blog, just something you own and control. Something that you won't lose if the platform dies or your account is banned or deleted (either by you or the platform.)

# I noticed a while ago that the view transitions when navigating from page tompage weren't working any more.

Initially, I thought I'd broken something but hadn't changed any of the relevant code. I checked across multiple Chromium based browsers on mobile and the Mac and it wasn't working anywhere. The correct flag was definitely set for all. As the viewTransitions API is due to go live (without a flag) in Chromium 126 I wondered if a change had been made in the engine, seeing as we're on v125.

To double check, I thought I'd try Dave Rupert's site as he's usually on top of all this. His transitions weren't working either. So, it's not just me.

On checking the relevant "Chrome for Developers page" I discovered that a new requirement had been added, the following CSS is needed to allow for transitions:

@view-transition {
    navigation: auto;
}

With this added a browser cached cleared transitions are working again.