Responsive fonts are blurry in Safari & Chrome on Mac

  • Paul Mycroft
    Asked on August 30, 2018 at 8:32 PM

    Hi there,

    When I view this page and make the window smaller in Safari & Chrome on Mac, there are moments when the fonts are blurry then they sharpen up.

    However, in Firefox, they are fine.

    Is there a way to increase the font-weight or the font size in mobile at least?

    Let me know and thanks.

    Jotform Thread 1568094 Screenshot
  • Jed_C
    Replied on August 30, 2018 at 10:35 PM

    It could be a setting on your browser as I'm unable to replicate it on Safari 11.8 on Mac High Sierra OS.

    1535682844Dashboard   Google Chrome 2018 Screenshot 10

    If you want the font to be sharper, try to go to Edit > Preferences > Apperance > Font Smoothing and set your desired level.

    I hope this helps. Let us know if you have any questions or if you need further assistance. 

  • pmycroft
    Replied on August 31, 2018 at 8:28 PM

    Hey Jed,

    I already have "font smoothing" activated in my system preferences. I have High Sierra and only Safari 11.1.2. How do you get 11.8? Is there a way to make that description text larger?

    Anyway, I seem to be having a conflict with the WordPress Divi theme and Jotform's modal lightbox popup code on this page. When I activate the area with the GET IN TOUCH button that you see, the header disappears (see working header on this page) and I get JavaScript errors in Console:

    See the JS error here

    It's points to a JS issue in this core Divi file:

    http://dev.hallofframes.com/wp-content/themes/Divi/js/custom.js?ver=3.13

    When I hide the GET IN TOUCH modal lightbox popup area, the header displays fine.

    Can you help with this? We really want the lightbox modal popup option.

    Thanks for your help.

  • pmycroft
    Replied on August 31, 2018 at 8:31 PM

    Also, try moving your Safari window inwards to see it respond then you'll see the text flipping between blurry and sharp. It subtle but it's there.

  • Jed_C
    Replied on August 31, 2018 at 10:24 PM

    Sorry, it was 11.1 not 11.8. The rendering of the font is controlled by a browser not by Jotform.

    When moving the Safari window inwards to its smallest size, I see the text changes. Again, this change is done automatically by Safari. Unless our dev team have access to the Safari's source code, they might be able to help but you know that is not possible because it is a closed source.

    As for the conflict, please try embedding the script below and see if that helps (remove the old embed code).

    <script type="text/javascript">  $.noConflict();</script>

    <script src ="https://form.jotform.com/static/feedback.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">

            var JFL_72264805867163 = new JotformFeedback({

              formId: '72264805867163',

              base: 'https://form.jotform.com/',

              windowTitle: 'General Inquiry Form',

              background: '#cb0901',

              fontColor: '#FFFFFF',

              type: '2',

              height: 500,

              width: 700,

              openOnLoad: false

            });

    </script>

    Let us know how it goes.

  • pmycroft
    Replied on September 4, 2018 at 5:26 PM

    Hi Jed,

    Okay, that seems to allow the header in but

    it pops me up to the top of the page when I click the "Get in Touch" button.

    Can you help with that? thanks.

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on September 4, 2018 at 9:05 PM

    Please try adding "?nojump" at the end of the form ID:

     formId: '72264805867163?nojump',

  • pmycroft
    Replied on September 4, 2018 at 9:16 PM

    Okay, that doesn't work at all and has nullified the function on this page:

    <script type="text/javascript"> $.noConflict();</script>
    <script src ="https://form.jotform.com/static/feedback.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">
     var JFL_72264805867163 = new JotformFeedback({
     formId: '72264805867163?nojump',
     base: 'https://form.jotform.com/',
     windowTitle: 'General Inquiry Form',
     background: '#cb0901',
     fontColor: '#FFFFFF',
     type: '2',
     height: 500,
     width: 700,
     openOnLoad: false
     });
    </script>

    Did I do it right?

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on September 4, 2018 at 9:34 PM

    Please revert my suggestion, I will move this issue to a separate thread, and escalate it to our back-end team to get further help. Please follow up here: https://www.jotform.com/answers/1571522- 

  • pmycroft
    Replied on September 4, 2018 at 9:58 PM

    I have reverted it so it jumps up now once clicked.

    Thanks.