Non-resizing text in Unity web pages

Dear Unity:

Your webpages are unreadable. Because the text does not scale as I control-scroll to change the page size, I get this kind of thing. Unity’s page is on the left, and a page that properly respects resizing is on the right. Both zoomed in quite a bit:

In summation: please stop being so silly. don’t go google’s route; you don’t know what visuals i need better than i do.

Just tried it out myself and all the text scales smaller and larger correctly. Using Windows 7 and the latest version of Firefox fwiw…

Works perfectly.

working ok in chrome here

Working just fine here, Chrome/OSX.

It doesn’t work in Safari. I mentioned this before but apparently the problem is just being ignored.

–Eric

It’s actually quite difficult to make most modern bowsers not able to resize things, so bravo to the web dev who managed it :wink:

After some poking about, I’m 99% certain the issue is linked to the “-webkit-text-size-adjust” CSS property and it effecting some desktop browsers instead of just being used for mobile. Having a quick poke about on the innards of the page, I didn’t notice the property explicitly, but if I add the CSS below to the page using LiveCSSEditor in Safari, it seems to fix the issue for me

div {
     -webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;
  }

Just a heads up to any web dev who may be reading this thread :wink:

Edit: Tested on a Windows machine with Safari 5.1.7 - not sure what the latest version is since I only really use it for website testing purposes.

Indeed, this is the only site I’ve ever seen that happen to. Good job finding the issue, now maybe the web developers can somehow manage to squeeze 3 seconds out of their schedules to fix it…I know that’s asking a ridiculous amount, but maybe it will happen anyway…

–Eric

Well you know what they say… the best way to say thanks is with discount Unity licenses!

At least that’s what my parents always taught me…

Well, sure…discount Unity licenses have been a common “thank you” tradition for thousands of years at least, having origins in festivals dedicated to the Roman god Unitus.

–Eric

This also works for me. Thanks!

At least I can still override weird settings here, even if it does take yet another plugin.

D’you think they’ll fix the issue if I just bump this thread for all eternity? I’d like that. While the fix above works, I have to manually apply it to every page and I just don’t care enough to do that. The script reference still works, thankfully, but who knows how long that’ll last.

I just updated to Mavericks, so I’m able to use Safari 7 now, and the fonts are resizable again. Either that or they coincidentally just fixed it, but that’s unlikely since the reply box font is still ugly. :wink:

–Eric

The Chrome extension “StyleBot” is capable of setting custom CSS and restyling across an entire domain. I was able to fix the divs (and the title text, and several other things) by setting their text size to 100% or by adding the div style mentioned above.

Irritated but sated for the moment. I hate having to fix things that should be complete.

My text resizes, but there is a minimum “content” width that is wider than my window at my preferred text size when on my laptop screen. Which is annoying and so very early 2000’s in terms of web design…

If it’s website wide I’ll pass it on to our front end web developer. For the VB stuff, our guy is away on paternity so I’ll ping him when he gets back in Feb.