{"id":6825,"date":"2004-12-24T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/24\/big-media-companies-have-to-stick-together-after-all.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:39:49","slug":"big_media_compa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/big_media_compa.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Media Companies have to stick together, after all &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite frequent assertions by some Firefox advocates that they only use Internet Explorer for Windows Update tasks, I continue to run across sites that either don&#8217;t work under Firefox (because of some ActiveX control) or that warn you they won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s example:  Disney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/DisneyPhotoPass.com \" target=\"_blank\">PhotoPass<\/a> site.  The PhotoPass allows in-park staff photographers at WDW (and Disneyland) to upload they photos they take of you to the Interne3, to be reviewed by you at your leisure for up to 90 days, whilst deciding whether to buy any of them.  A tremendous convenience, much better than having to stop by the photo store at the exit of a park.<\/p>\n<p>Except that convenience is only available to folks to toe the Redmond line:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">The design on this site has been optimized for specific browser versions. It appears that your current browser version is Firefox 0.10.1, which will not provide an optimal experience.  You may download a free upgrade or proceed to DisneyPhotoPass.com below. Please note that if you proceed, some areas of the site may not work properly.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, the current version of Firefox is 1.0.  I haven&#8217;t upgrade, and probably won&#8217;t until my real machine is back from the shop.  I don&#8217;t suspect it would make any difference.)<\/p>\n<p>It then offers to take you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft&#8217;s IE download site<\/a>, or to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m going to try a sub-optimal experience &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Later]<\/p>\n<p>Well.  I didn&#8217;t get to see a sub-optimal experience, but the 17 photos there show up (in both Firefox and IE) as &#8220;Image Not Available.&#8221;  So let&#8217;s see how the PhotoPass tech support is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite frequent assertions by some Firefox advocates that they only use Internet Explorer for Windows Update tasks, I continue to run across sites that either don&#8217;t work under Firefox (because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14870,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/tweets-from-2009-05-27-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6825,"position":0},"title":"Walt Disney World Tweets from 2009-05-27","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-May-09 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And off to #wdw EPCOT today. 11 miles yesterday - what will we do today? # Starting today's #wdw Deluge Pool. 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