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Two stores, the same product, the same server response time – yet one feels faster and more trustworthy. The difference comes down to microinteractions: a few hundred milliseconds of animation that decide whether a user trusts what's on screen. I break them down from first principles – the trigger/feedback model, what actually happens inside the browser's rendering engine, and prefers-reduced-motion.

CSS Houdini isn't a single technology — it's a collection of specifications at very different stages of maturity. Find out which part of it is actually production-ready today, how @property and the paint worklet really work, and why the rest is still experimental.