This was the first I'd heard of "Navigation Transitions" (perhaps I don't read the right mailing lists), and ppk's right - this seems like an absolutely crazy feature to add.
Also, from the page ppk links to:
<link rel="transition-enter" duration="0.25s" href="URI" />
This makes absolutely no sense, though perhaps it has a place amongst the wealth of gibberish we've seen stuck between <head> tags over the years - <meta http-equiv="pragma">, anyone?