zeros and ones

The office is always abuzz whenever a major browser release happens.  At SitesNow!, you may be a Mozilla Firefox fan but you simply must respect the power of majority … it rules.

We started testing the pre-beta version of IE 7 about 10-months ago.  The biggest thorn in the side of any agency is browser compatibility.  Each site we release is thoroughly tested to maintain useability across mulltiple platforms and browsers.  You may be running Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP but the next visitor may be running Safari, for whatever reason, on an Apple … it’s our job to make certain each experience is the same.  As soon as the IE beta was in-house we ran all our public sites through the gauntlet.  We did find a few minor issues which were addressed well before today’s final release.  In a perfect world, these browsers would all conform to established web standards.  Reality tells us that even the current release of Firefox doesn’t.  The same can be said for Microsoft’s latest release.  They both fail the ACID2 test.  Bummer.

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According to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, a new record has been established in data transfer rate.  140 digital high-definition movies were transmitted over a single, 160km long optical fiber … in one second.  That’s 14 Tera bits per second.  Here’s the official super-technical press release courtesy of NTT.

There’s broadband then there’s this.  Anyone want to take a stab at giving it a name?