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Well the website has been useless all day. BGW has been posting stuff like this on social media but they have no responses for everyone asking if their orders went through since it keeps timing out and no email confirmations are going out. I "think" I have reservations for the picnic tomorrow but it won't let me add names to my tickets and it won't send me the confirmation until I do it. The phone rep said it was confirmed, but I'm not too sure.
 
Don't know if the issue I just encountered pertains just to the BGW website or all Seaworld websites. I went onto their site to check park hours and show schedules as I finally bought my membership yesterday during their sale. Well the calendar had no information in it. Yet a couple of weeks ago I checked and it had everything populated for every day. Well after a few seconds a prompt came up at the top of the screen saying that I was using an unsupported browser (Firefox, which I've used for years) and it told me to use either Edge, Chrome or one other. Well that pissed me right off that their lazy ass webmasters and/or hosting site can't support Firefox which is a very popular and secure browser. Needless to say I sent them a very nasty email about this shit. I'm actually so mad I now wish I hadn't bought my membership! To error is human but to really fuck things up requires BGW/Seaworld.
 
Don't know if the issue I just encountered pertains just to the BGW website or all Seaworld websites. I went onto their site to check park hours and show schedules as I finally bought my membership yesterday during their sale. Well the calendar had no information in it. Yet a couple of weeks ago I checked and it had everything populated for every day. Well after a few seconds a prompt came up at the top of the screen saying that I was using an unsupported browser (Firefox, which I've used for years) and it told me to use either Edge, Chrome or one other. Well that pissed me right off that their lazy ass webmasters and/or hosting site can't support Firefox which is a very popular and secure browser. Needless to say I sent them a very nasty email about this shit. I'm actually so mad I now wish I hadn't bought my membership! To error is human but to really fuck things up requires BGW/Seaworld.

Eh, there's actually a lot of website content management systems out there that have difficulties with Firefox compatibility, especially for non-core site components (which a calendar or map graphic interface is likely to be). I can't remember the exact details, but IIRC it's something to do with optimizing for Google and Apple search engines as they control the market, especially Google. The odd part is, to my knowledge, they both use the same backbone kernel (which MS Edge also uses after MS finally gave up on having their own with IE...).

And let's face it, all mainstream browsers are about the same amount of secure, they're really dependent on what settings you use and what data you're willing to share.

So while your frustration is understandable, there's a good chance you're in the minority of browser choice for the park to care enough to do anything about browser compatibility. You're better off switching to one of their recommended browsers and just roll with it.
 
@Jonesta6, Your comment is generally true but like I mentioned only like a week or two at most before I had gone onto the website and checked the calendar and it was working fine. So something got changed since then or what I experienced could be just some short term flaw, which I hope is the case.
 
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Eh, there's actually a lot of website content management systems out there that have difficulties with Firefox compatibility, especially for non-core site components (which a calendar or map graphic interface is likely to be). I can't remember the exact details, but IIRC it's something to do with optimizing for Google and Apple search engines as they control the market, especially Google. The odd part is, to my knowledge, they both use the same backbone kernel (which MS Edge also uses after MS finally gave up on having their own with IE...).

And let's face it, all mainstream browsers are about the same amount of secure, they're really dependent on what settings you use and what data you're willing to share.

So while your frustration is understandable, there's a good chance you're in the minority of browser choice for the park to care enough to do anything about browser compatibility. You're better off switching to one of their recommended browsers and just roll with it.
Edge and Chrome are both built off of Chromium. Firefox is still partly it's own thing. I still have to deal with this crap as a web developer.
 
Edge and Chrome are both built off of Chromium. Firefox is still partly it's own thing. I still have to deal with this crap as a web developer.

I thought FF also used Chromium - I seemed to remember that was something that's come up in their occasional donation pitches. Something about using the same kernel but otherwise a non-profit doing all the front-end feature development and management.

But I guess things either changed or I misunderstood way back when I saw that.

Either way, FF is not that popular of a browser as it once was, especially when realizing most website visits are coming from mobile devices and people tend to use whatever the default browser on their device is.
 
Chrome, Edge and Opera use Blink which is a fork of Webkit from Safari, which itself is a fork of KHTML from the K Desktop Environment.

BGW's site is based on Sitecore CMS, any sort of issues with Firefox or even Safari is because they are not complying with adopted standards. Google will add things to Blink that are not adopted yet to try and force the standard.
 
Chrome, Edge and Opera use Blink which is a fork of Webkit from Safari, which itself is a fork of KHTML from the K Desktop Environment.

BGW's site is based on Sitecore CMS, any sort of issues with Firefox or even Safari is because they are not complying with adopted standards. Google will add things to Blink that are not adopted yet to try and force the standard.
Interesting, I didn't bother checking code but that explains a few things.

I think Dollywood also uses Sitecore too.
 
Just checked the calendar for the hell of it and it looks and works fine. Guess my patience with things like this is getting shorter as I get older.
 
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Mmmm, I sense much budget cuts within.
 
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