First, let me say thanks for stopping by on a daily basis, your continued patronage of this website in the fight against climate fanaticism is always appreciated. I’m considering some changes to WUWT’s formatting in the upcoming months to help keep important stories online longer, but before I do that I need the readers to answer a question that I can’t answer myself by looking at visitor data.
The question is: how do you see this website in your browser?
There’s three possible ways; the gallery format and the linear format, or mobile. Depending on your screen resolution and browser window size, one of these three presentations is possible.
GALLERY VIEW:
(larger screens and full width browser windows)
LINEAR VIEW:
(smaller screens and smaller browser windows)
MOBILE VIEW:
(On phones)
Please tell me which view you normally see:
Your answer will help me make WUWT better.
Thanks, Anthony
Gallery in Mozilla. While I’ve got you, 1) Thank YOU! and 2) I think your work is being misrepresented on another site, guy calls himself Scott Koonz is saying that when you gathered unadjusted records from select stations it still showed a warming trend. I don’t recall it that way, but am not able to find my way back to that post. I looked at tips, and saw over 1700, didn’t think it would do any good to ask it there. If I can be directed how to find such a post in archives, that’d be great.
And BTW, there’s a fourth view everybody sees on the first 3. It looks like a guy who is sick and tired of being lied to, and when he looks for the truth, he gets attacked by the liars (who still have their white lab coats on).
paul courtney
HEY!
I have a white lab coa……..Ooops!….. 🙂
Wish I had one, then I could contribute meaningfully.
Thanks all.
Gallery on the note tablet and PC. Mobile on the note phone. As a frequent reader, I think gallery gives the best quick overview.
I see all three on my PC, iPad, and phone respectively. I prefer the pc format ( gallery ).
Both Gallery and mobile, later more often
Thanks for being here
Gallery – on desktop running on Opera . . .
I use firefox and I get the gallery view.
Hi I use Google and get linear but would prefer Gallery. I can see why phone users might want linear so can you give us a choice button. Is it possible to improve the search function within WUWT that would be really helpful? Great work you and the moderators are doing keep it up.
I view it on my 55″ flat-screen TV using either Chrome or Internet Explorer zoomed to about 175% so I can read it from my couch and it appear in Linear format.
Chrome on Linux (Ubuntu Mate). Gallery View.
Linear view for me (option 2). Signal comes in on hardline.
Whatever you do I’m sure it will be GREAT!
Don’t know if it matters but browser is Firefox.
On my laptop as above
Gallery view @ur momisugly 90% zoom
Linear view @ur momisugly100% – 120%
Mobile view @ur momisugly133% or greater
I am viewing most often on a Kindle Fire. I get a combo view. The first five articles appear in Gallery View, then there is an ad then all subsequent older articles appear in linear view. I guess, even though the Kindle is a mobile device, the screen format treats the format like an IPad might.
I get the gallery view on first opening the home page (on a widescreen laptop using Windows 10 and Firefox). I immediately go the to the most recent article and view it, then page back chronologically to previous articles, until I get to the first article I had previously read the day before.
A few not totally unrelated suggestions:
When in article view mode, when the comments are visible, I would really enjoy if the ‘Next Article’ and ‘Previous Article’ controls lived in three places instead of just one as it is now. Those three places would be 1) at the very top of the page (below the banner, above the article headline), 2) at the end of the article and before 1st comment (as it is now), and 3) at the very end of the comments. If the controls are generated automatically as the page loads, this shouldn’t be a difficult change. I think I would use the “Previous” at the end of the comments most often.
The basic metadata for each article should be prominent at a reserved spot at the beginning of each article and include these bits.
The headline: KIDS MAKE TASTY SNACKS!
Author: Anthony Watts
posted by: Charles the moderator – if a moderator posts an article they didn’t write, it may confuse authorship.
posted on: May 10, 2018 @ur momisugly 22:45:17 PDT
Still the best web site anywhere! Thank you, Anthony and all the mods and guest authors!
Anthony,
I don’t know what customizations are available to you, but if you can apply CSS, I would recommend using Bootstrap. It will automatically handle all three of your scenarios based on the viewport reported by the browser. https://getbootstrap.com/
Your web programmer should be able to setup an individual preference bases on a stored cookie.
Hi Anthony
I too get Gallery view, but like many I rarely visit the home page as I am subscribed to the e-mail list and get a synopsis and URL for each new post.
Cheers
Andi
I see gallery. I had to check because I normally just go to an article from the RSS feed.
Gallery. But the poll doesn’t work for me (can’t be answered, there is no submit button).
I hit send too soon. I would mention that I also see new messages in Thunderbird (as text-only, chopping off after about two lines) using the RSS feed. For most blogs I primarily read them that way, but yours is frustrating because it chops off rather than showing the whole post there.
Gallery from firefox.
I use Firefox ESR on Debian 7 workstation. I get one row of gallery then it goes linear.
Time to time I use Safari on iPad or iPhone ( old 3GS ).
Present layout fit me well.
Chrome, linear.
Gallery using Safari or Chrome
on Apple computer so old
I can’t update either browsing software.
If it ain’t broke,
why fix it?
Richard Greene
Security man, come on. If you can’t even update your browser your OS is full of holes.
From a non techy so likely to be ridiculed.
You buy me a new computer HotScot
and the problem will be fixed
and you’ll have a tax deduction,
so it’s win-win !
Richard Greene
I’m not sure there are tax deductions for presents in the UK.
You could always build one, it’s easy and cheap.
Gallery. Looks good.
What’s a browser?
Coeur de Lion
A wife.
Avoid them, they’re expensive.
Depending on window size I can see either gallery or linear. Either one is fine. Running Safari on MacOS High Sierra. I occasionally use Firefox on Windows 10, and get the same result there. I never visit WUWT on mobile.
Linear, Chrome. Been lurking for years. Your site is invaluable. As an educated layman. I often cannot fully understand the details,(especially advanced mathematics) of the primary story/article. Perusing the comments threads provides me with very important information/context/insight. Whatever the format, please continue to provide this essential service. I thank you, Anthony.
It works now. Fight the face-lift urge.
How many sites/apps have committed suidide by face-lift? I have lost count. Some made themselves gradually worse, others went for total self-destruction: hotmail, yahoo, google, village square, marketwatch, computerworld/IDG, UBM, industryweek, ars technica, cnet, slashdot, dice, San Diego union-tribune, manufacturer, tennessean, a bunch of cox newspaper sites, AAAS Science & ScienceCareers, insidetech, chronicle of higher ed… There are also many news & opinion sites I used to visit a couple times a day for good content that now I visit once a week, once a month or less: Cenantua, newswithviews, American thinker, washington dc times, cns, wnd, oped news, before its news… some started jumping and twitching as I tried to read content…to make sure (in the mind of some dreanged web-weaver on some other kind of device) I could see disgusting ad content.
(Ads I can tolerate, even enjoy the extra info on good products – – those weather stations, gauges, wood-working & machine tools, beakers, thermometers of various kinds, micrometers… but, really! I don’t wear saris or ugly..or any other kind of high heels! What are their AIs thinking!?)
It is fine as is. I get the e-mail messages, go to the individual articles, or to the hone page to scroll down the moderately brief list. In a pinch, I do a search. And, hoping to get more traffic to sites I like, I add links to the best ones onto my personal (ugly, boring, non-jumping, non-security-risking i.e. no scripting) web pages…albeit with my own spin on the head-lines based on content.
Agreed — ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Simple is better than fancy. I don’t come here to be wowed by someone’s leet web skilz.