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Matt West

Matt West is a designer at Wildbit, creators of Beanstalk, Postmark and DeployBot. He also wrote the book HTML5 Foundations. You can catch him on twitter as @MattAntWest.

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March 11, 2014 in Learn

How to Use the Details and Summary Elements in HTML5

A number of new interactive elements were introduced with HTML5 that provide native implementations of common UI widgets like dialogs and modals. Among these new additions are the <details> and <summary> elements. These elements allow developers to create collapsable UI…

March 3, 2014 in Learn

How to Use The HTML List Elements

Some of the most commonly used elements for marking up web content are unordered, ordered, and definition lists. In this post you’re going to learn how to use these HTML list elements in your own web page markup. You’ll learn…

February 26, 2014 in Learn

Uploading Files with AJAX

The introduction of AJAX marked a huge leap forward in the history of the web. The ability to communicate with a web server without reloading the page has revolutionised how web applications are built. The primary technology that enables AJAX…

February 21, 2014 in Learn

Registering Protocol Handlers for Your Web Applications

Protocol handlers allow you to inform the browser that your web app is capable of handling links and URLs with certain schemes. Using the registerProtocolHandler method you are able to register your web app as a handler for schemes like…

February 18, 2014 in Learn

How to Use The HTML5 Sectioning Elements

HTML5 has seen the introduction of a number of sectioning elements that can be used to mark up your web pages. Using these elements gives more semantic meaning to your pages, allowing computer programs to better understand your content. In…

February 10, 2014 in Learn

Getting Involved in Open Source Projects

The open source movement has been responsible for many great innovations over the past few decades. Linux, the Apache Web Server, and Rails are just a few examples of open source projects that have elevated the web industry to new…

February 6, 2014 in Learn

Optimizing Mobile Web Apps for iOS

When I was looking through the analytics data for a product I recently launched I was taken aback by just how much mobile traffic the web app was getting. After seeking some feedback from users it became clear that people…

February 4, 2014 in Learn

Getting Started with the Speech Synthesis API

With the introduction of products like Siri and Google Now, speech technology has really taken off in the past few years. Various organisations have been working on speech recognition and synthesis for decades, but it seems like only recently that…

January 31, 2014 in Learn

How to use the Meter & Progress Elements

The development of HTML5 has introduced a series of new elements that can be used to create common UI components like date pickers and autocomplete dropdowns. Two of these new elements are <progress> and <meter>. In this post you’re going…

January 21, 2014 in Learn

Exploring the Battery Status API

With the rise in popularity of mobile web apps there’s been a big push to develop device APIs that allow web developers to reach out of the browser and access the underlying device hardware. We’ve seen the introduction of getUserMedia,…

January 16, 2014 in Learn

Accepting Voice Input in HTML5 Forms

The way that we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the past decade. Touch-screen devices and laptop trackpads have enabled a much more intuitive form of interaction than is achievable using a traditional mouse. These changes haven’t been limited…

January 9, 2014 in Learn

Getting Started with the WebP Image Format

When it comes to optimizing websites for performance one of the biggest goals is to reduce the amount of data that needs to be sent to the browser (the payload). As images commonly make up the largest chunk of the…

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