I just finished the Space Shooter tutorial and since there was no GUIText object I created UI.Text objects instead and coded accordingly. It works in the unity player but not after building the web application. It took me a while to pinpoint the bug but when i completely dissabled the UI.Text and rebuild I got it to work.
The web player displays: The content was stopped because a fatal content error has been detected. followed by a crash report.
Is there any fix for this? Or perhaps a temporary workaround to use text?
I had the same problem following the same tutorial. Check your settings at Edit/Project Settings/Graphics. If you have only one shader added (Diffuse), include 'UI/Default' and 'UI/Default Font'.
Now, I'm new to Unity so I cannot further describe the fix. But apparently, the UI Texts are the only objects in the scene (if you followed the tutorial) which have a Material property with None (Material) set as value. My guess is that with that value set the shaders mentioned above are needed, but not bundled automatically when creating the builds. Read Unity GraphicsSettings for information.
Why did I add those? Because those are included by default in other projects following other Unity tutorials.