#custom-views

#custom-views

React Native v0.85 introduces a new Shared Animation backend, enhancing the animation capabilities of applications. Upcoming features like <ViewTransition> and Skia Graphite promise to further improve user experiences.

YouTube iframes can be pretty heavy, leading to a noticeable hit on load time and Core Web Vitals, especially LCP and CLS.

Using such a resolution in the web browser would render a tiny illegible desktop site. To avoid that, CSS pixels add a layer of abstraction. Initially the amount of actual pixels compared to CSS pixels was simply a 2x or 3x conversion, but these days fractional scaling is also common.

Performance is a critical factor in user engagement, where even minor delays in loading can deter users. A clean and simple user interface also contributes significantly to user retention.

When applications grow, state becomes messy, components break, and small changes ripple into unexpected bugs. This is where many learners realize that knowing React syntax is not the same as knowing how React applications are built.

Teams often use customer and user interchangeably until it breaks alignment. Here's how separating the two clarifies research, prioritization, and messaging across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C products.

WCAG is not normatively stating focus must be trapped within a dialog. Rather, the normative WCAG spec makes zero mention of requirements for focus behavior in a dialog. The informative 2.4.3 focus order understanding doc does talk about limiting focus behavior within a dialog - but again, this is in the context of a scripted custom dialog and was written long before inert or <dialog> were widely available.

Everything you need to know in development &amp; design this week, rounded up for you (Week 4, 2026). You'll find the most essential things right now: JavaScript &amp; CSS libraries, useful code snippets, crucial web dev news &amp; resources, curated AI tools, free design assets, and plenty of other good stuff we found! Highlights: 2026 Tech Stack Refresh! Dive into updated &quot;Top 10&quot; lists for Off-canvas menus, responsive dropdowns, fullscreen navs, and more to get your projects ready for the year ahead.

Chris Coyier demonstrates how to maintain a video's state across different pages using CSS view transitions. He notes that this is fairly easy to do with same-page view transitions, but with multi-page view transitions you'll need to leverage JavaScript's pageswap event to save information about the video's state in sessionStorage as a JSON string (works with audio and iframes too), and then use that information to restore the state on pagereveal. Yes, there's a tiiiiny bit of audio stutter because we're technically faking it, but it's still super neat.