This article shows how to use JavaScript to detect and serve the proper HTML5 markup for audio to the browsers that support it, including the proper codec. If the browser does not support HTML5 at all, it reverts to Flash.
This video is fantastic. I have mentioned it several times, but I think I have neglected to post it here. It has amazing things to say about what is going on in culture, and has much to us. I'm hoping many within Emergent will see this.
"Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface."
Fake Steve Jobs examines the exploited labor that pays for our stuff. While he is sarcastic and brutal on the surface, as he should be, there is a genuine care here that is incredibly uncommon in a site as highly trafficked as his, and especially from a person that everyone knows writes for Newsweek.
Many of us within Emergent Village have seen our cohorts in the same position mentioned in this post. Here, there are some great ideas for how Emergent Cohorts can move forward, beyond what we have thus far done with them into a new identity, with a great potential for practice and action in the things we talk about.
Tony writes a good post here, asking what we should think about healthcare. Besides his own thoughts, there are a few (thus far) really insightful, compassionate, and forward-thinking (for the sake of the church, entrepreneurs, etc.) comments that are well worth a read.
Wise thoughts on the news media charging for online content. This has insights on why it is that the older news organizations have not learned how to function online, and the kind of news model can work.
Tony Jones looks at the panel discussion on how the church should approach GLBT persons, of which he was a part at this year's Cornerstone Festival. We attended this panel, and it was truly an exceptional moment at the fest.
Jeremy Keith clears up potential misunderstandings on the death of XHTML 2, and what that means for XHTML syntax, HTML syntax, and so on. An important read.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.