SMRTR ProgrammingDec 2, 2025Daily.dev

Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries

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CSS now supports scroll-driven animations natively in Chrome, with Safari and Firefox developing support. The author demonstrates "nonlinear scrollytelling" - a Choose Your Own Adventure-style narrative controlled by scrolling direction, using new CSS features like scroll-state queries, animation timelines, and scroll-initial-target to create an interactive pixel art story where users guide a character through branching paths.

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