I just stumbled upon a great article about seamless page transitions, in this case, with Vue.js.
It instantly hit me that this is something that would fit/suite Webflow perfectly.
It’s all about (web)flow and seemless transitions to give a website a much smoother and ultimately a perfect user experience.
This is somehting Webflow could benefit from hugely!
The examples i saw where quite mindblowing and i was wondering if this is something Webflow has on the radar (as well)?
New pages get loaded/cached while hovering over a button or while an ‘outro’ animation is going on
Great overall feel and a maximal smooth user experience
I think we can alreay do some things with IX2.0, but the thing i’m still missing is, f.e., the option to animate and open the new page at a specific moment in time (in the animation).
I would be even better if the new page would be loaded while running the animation, so 2 options within IX2.0 would be needed:
Add a point in time to Start loading the new page (if a link is applied)
Add a point in time when to open/show the new page (most often after the animation is done)
If done right, this might be (another) game-changer for Webflow.
Hope to see what the community thinks and also if WF has something like this in their Roadmap.
this article also hit me … Absolutely amazing piece of end user experience …
Since then I am posting questions in the forum to see if anything similar can be achieved with turbolinks , barba.js or swup … no luck so far … but keep experimenting.
Have you attempted to do anything and you can share may be ?
this is certainly needs @brryant ‘s and Vlads’ attention … marking @PixelGeek for his awareness as well
Awesome i’m not the only one. (i thought that there must be more that see the potential here).
‘Unfortunately’ i’m very busy building (Webflow) sites, 2 of them with the new CSS-grid. So no time at the moment for further experimenting.
Another ‘unfortunatly’: I did use the javascript trick, which did work (but losing proper seo/link-building) but the links stopped working for me a week or two ago. Maybe i need to re-add the javascript links to temporary fix this again - but - it was also a nasty workaround - not a solid one.
We need an option for buttons/links and/or IX2.0/2.1 that includes delay-time, but keeps links properly working. With this, a complete new way of interaction is possible. After that, i would be nice to pre-cache the clicked link, so that the (preceived) site speed increases.
Please! Keep me informed of your attempts and or information.
and YES, this could really use some extra attention!
