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I don't know how they achieve it, but this Quartz website works perfectly in Lynx, yet all I get in Chrome is a blank screen and a loading spinner.

Sorry for being off topic, but it infuriates me when people screw up the web this much.

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resize the window slightly if it's blank ... there's a silly renderer bug in the latest chrome. I had to do it here.

And no, I don't know the bug number or if it's tracked or if it's been fixed. I just deal with it and hope it will be fixed eventually.

Works in Opera. ;)

I got the same thing in Firefox 10.0esr, so it seems safe to assume it's the site and not a Chrome bug... I had to select "View->Page Style->No Style" to read the page. It was ugly because there was no CSS but at least I could read the text!

The website is completely broken in Firefox for Android. It loads a different article (at this time, it's loading the first one in the sidebar, rather than this article on Opera, which is the second---but at least if you tap that item it loads it), and has a sidebar which covers about a third of the text (always bad), and disables all zooming (almost always bad---please, web developers, refrain from doing that... I know best when I want to scroll).

I had annoyances as well. With JS disabled, I had three scroll bars on the right and a banner at the top saying "qz.com works best with Javascript enabled" (no joke). With it enabled, dragging the scrollbar is broken because it removes about a page of content when you scroll down, which causes the page to jump around as you drag the scrollbar. I guess my days of making badly-written sites work slightly better by disabling JS are gone.

Works fine in Chrome on Windows for me. The site's design is pretty weird, though.

I experienced the same thing in Chrome (Ubuntu). It didn't load.

I had the same experience with Safari but it worked fine with Chrome.

If it works in Lynx, are you sure it's the website that's wrong?

Works on the POS known as chrome mobile. Nexus 7.

Works fine. Chromium on Arch.

Same config, does not work for me.

website always works fine for me in chrome (os x) but i hate that they don't allow the font size to increase when i zoom. i have to put my face 3 inches from the monitor to read their (usually really high quality) articles

The resizing problem happens because they are using (abusing!) this CSS style:

  -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

This style should never be used in a site viewed on a desktop browser (fellow devs please note!).

I made a userstyle that fixes this problem on all the sites that have it:

http://userstyles.org/styles/54719/ctrl-plus-text-zoom-fix

niiiiice thanks!!

Thanks for pointing this out. The change will be live by Wednesday morning.

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