Bringing Microsoft Internet Explorer’s proprietary “Interpage Transitions” back to Modern Browsers using the View Transition API

https://www.bram.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ie-page-transitions.mp4Recording of the demo showcasing all 23 RevealTrans effects. ~ Back in late 2024, I started working on a fun end-of-year side project named ie-page-transitions. It”s a CSS + JS library that brings back Microsoft Internet Explorer’s proprietary “Interpage Transitions” to modern browsers, powered by the View Transition API. After sitting unfinished for a while, I finally got all 23 classic effects over the finish line and published the project on page-transitions.style. ~ # A Quick Trip Down Memory Lane (and Project History) If you built websites in the late 1990s or early 2000s, you might remember that Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through 8.0 had a proprietary feature called Interpage Transitions. Using a simple <meta> tag in the <head> of your document, you could apply PowerPoint-style transitions — like Box in, Circle out, Vertical blinds, Checkerboard, or Random dissolve — to the entire browser…