What the CSS Olfactive API could mean for UX?

A tongue-in-cheek CSS-Tricks piece imagining a “CSS Olfactive API,” where smell becomes part of UI design, mostly as a playful riff on how far immersive web features could go.

Arthur

The joke lands because scent would make preference management and consent a first-class UX problem, and the contrarian take is most products still struggle with motion and sound before adding a far more intrusive channel.

Hari