Sometime in the last several weeks Disney has updated their website for the Adventures By Disney offering.
The site has the new Disney header that’s on most of the other sites now and features a much more streamlined (and less ‘Flash’-y version of the site) that seems to work pretty well in both IE 7 and the latest versions of Firefox (I’m a PC, so you Mac users will have to fend for yourself in Safari, though I’m sure it works fine). Unfortunately it looks like (*&!@& if are using IE 8 in the new default standards mode.
A quick click of the Compatibility Mode button takes good care of that problem, but frankly I’m surprised that it’s even necessary. I’ve seen this with a number of Disney websites lately, especially in the Parks and Resorts group. Why they can’t get the appropriate one line of HTML into their web headers to fix this until they are ready (or able) to embrace IE8’s new standards mode I’m not sure I understand. Microsoft only spent over a year telling people what they had to do.
Apparently not enough people visit Disney.com from IE8 to make it an issue yet?
In case somebody at Disney is reading this, here are the two optional lines of code for a per-site or per-page basis to fix this for the moment, straight from MS:
There are two ways to implement this tag:
- On a per-site basis, add a custom HTTP header
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
- On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the <head> tag
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
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