Weird message from Disney

[diberry]

Are you viewing the page in compatibility mode?

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Looking at it, it appears yes, goto tools, Compatibility View Settings. Make sure display all websites in compatibility view is off. And make sure the disney websites aren't on the explicit list.

HAh, alternatively at the right of the address bar, right after the drop down arrow, and before the refresh button, there should be a page torn in half type icon if you are viewing in compatibility mode, click that, and it should turn it off for that website.

Thank you reiella. I did what you said but there's nothing in the websites compatibility view box and there's no torn page icon next to the address bar either.

 

[diberry]

Installed Firefox and can get to my dining reservations now - many thanks!!

 

[mb168]

Installed Firefox and can get to my dining reservations now - many thanks!!

It's what all the cool kids use

 

[diberry]

It's what all the cool kids use

Ooooh, does that make me cool? (First time ever!!!)

 

[mom2rtk]

It's what all the cool kids use

Nope..... Can confirm that's not true. It's what I use and I've never been remotely cool..........

 

[selina4disney]

As a person who works with this daily, I'm surprised more and more sites aren't doing this. IE6 is the WORST browser you could possibly be using and is the bane of all developers out there. They have to do so much extra coding to make a page appear correctly in all of the other browsers AND IE6 many are finally deciding that there aren't enough IE6 users out there and finally just not doing it. As of April 2010, only about 7.9% of users were using IE6 so YAY for Disney!

So do yourself, and all developers out there, and upgrade to something even a little newer, IE6 came out in 2003, its over 7 years old.

The OP stated they are using IE 8. She already did herself a favor. That's why she was puzzled at the message.

 

[mb168]

Ooooh, does that make me cool? (First time ever!!!)

YES!!

So now you can install Personas and get a Disney Persona, you'll love the plugins you can run now. Hover a couple of the examples there and it'll change the look of your whole browser.

 

[mb168]

The OP stated they are using IE 8. She already did herself a favor. That's why she was puzzled at the message.

Yeah, keep reading, it was discussed...

 

[diberry]

YES!!

So now you can install Personas and get a Disney Persona, you'll love the plugins you can run now. Hover a couple of the examples there and it'll change the look of your whole browser.

WOW! That's so brilliant! Thank you so much!!

 

[selina4disney]

Yeah, keep reading, it was discussed...

Personally, I haven't used IE for my regular browser for years, since 5, even though the later versions are on my PCs. I moved to Firefox years ago and Chrome seems promising too. Safari is also very good and I use it on both Mac and PC. I only use IE when forced to. (In all honesty, I only use a PC when I have to, and MS dropped support for IE on the Mac years ago.)

 

[diberry]

Firefox seems great - loving it already!!

 

[pulpinator]

Personally, I haven't used IE for my regular browser for years, since 5, even though the later versions are on my PCs. I moved to Firefox years ago and Chrome seems promising too. Safari is also very good and I use it on both Mac and PC. I only use IE when forced to. (In all honesty, I only use a PC when I have to, and MS dropped support for IE on the Mac years ago.)

Chrome is sooo much faster than anything else (yes, including Firefox) for java stuff. And with so much javascript on so many sites, it's nice.

Plus it's miles safer than IE, any version.

 

[mb168]

Chrome is sooo much faster than anything else (yes, including Firefox) for java stuff. And with so much javascript on so many sites, it's nice.

Plus it's miles safer than IE, any version.

I'm not a "Big Brother" type person, but Google scares me a bit knowing too much of my business. They already know too much about us without knowing every single site, search, etc we do.

But there are more Chrome users than even Safari, there just aren't as many mac'ers as their marketing dept would have us believe, statistically speaking they barely exist. Here are the most current browser stats

 

[pulpinator]

I'm not a "Big Brother" type person, but Google scares me a bit knowing too much of my business. They already know too much about us without knowing every single site, search, etc we do.

I agree, but I'm not too concerned with their browser. People smarter than me have looked at the source code (Chromium), and the browser doesn't report my surfing habits back to Google.

I'm more concerned with bad websites hijacking my computer, which they can do with IE, but the not with Chrome and their sandbox thing.

Anyway, I didn't mean to start a browser merits discussion. Firefox, Chrome, whatever. Any time somebody chooses not to use IE, it just makes the world safer!

 

[mb168]

I agree, but I'm not too concerned with their browser. People smarter than me have looked at the source code (Chromium), and the browser doesn't report my surfing habits back to Google.

I'm more concerned with bad websites hijacking my computer, which they can do with IE, but the not with Chrome and their sandbox thing.

Anyway, I didn't mean to start a browser merits discussion. Firefox, Chrome, whatever. Any time somebody chooses not to use IE, it just makes the world safer!

Here here!!

 

[DonaldTDuck]

YES!!

So now you can install Personas and get a Disney Persona, you'll love the plugins you can run now. Hover a couple of the examples there and it'll change the look of your whole browser.

I have a Donald Duck persona not listed on the Disney pages and it has developed a thick black band across it. Any one know why?

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Maybe you should upgrade your Firefox. When I go to that site it shows I am using Mozilla/5.0 and it does not even refer to MSIE.

When you are in your browser, click on <HELP> and then from the drop-down click on <CHECK FOR UPDATES> and go from there.

 

[robinb]

Hi everyone! I was having the annoying "IE Bug" on the WDW Dining Reservation website. I had IE8.0 installed but I got the error: "Did you know that your Internet Explorer is out-of-date? Our dining reservation system does not support Internet Explorer 6 or earlier versions. You will need to upgrade your version of Internet Explorer to a newer version"."
To make matters worse, my Firefox browser was also not behaving properly with the Disney restaurant reservation site either. I has to use Chome instead.

I figured out what MY problem was and maybe it's yours too.

I went to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ (as suggested here). the "User Agent" tells websites which browser you are using and any compatibilities. Well, I got the strangest HTTP_USER_AGENT ever:

HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; http://bsalsa.com) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.2)

It doubled my browser's identification... once as MSIE 8.0 and again as MSIE 6.0 thing (in red). It turns out that some program that used Borland C++ horked up my User Agent long ago when I used 6.0. I figured that the Disney website saw the MSIE 6.0 in the User Agent, ignored the MSIE 8.0 and threw up the error.

The solution is here:
http://www.bsalsa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=686

I fired up regedit, found the registry entry "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform" and deleted it.

My User Agent is now:
HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.2)

The Disney reservation website works fine .

Now I have to figure out what is stopping Firefox from opening up the pop up properly ...