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 on Safari, MacBook Pro
The view is Linear on Safari & Firefox on iPad.
I do like the Gallery representation over Linear tho
Edge and Brave on Windows 10 give Gallery view – fine by me.
Windows phone 10 gives mobile view – very occasional use – don’t mind this for quick scanning.
I usually remove Chrome from any clients computers and put a WUWT link in the favourites 🙂 and show them some graphs from the side-bar data!
When I say clients they are mostly older folks that I help pro-bono with their technological needs when their grandkids live on the other side of the country or world, or folks that come into our Men’s Shed for help.
Mobile view. But my ad blocker must strip off the cartoons.
Gallery on Safari (MacOS), Chrome or Opera (windows 10) on a MacBook pro. About 75 % of the time.
Lineal on Safari iPad Air. 25 %
Anthony – here is what I see. I hope this helps.
William
MacBook Pro 15″ (mid-2015) MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
Chrome [Version 66.0.3359.170 (Official Build) (64-bit)]: “gallery” = 1 story on top; then 4 stories next row; then 1 per row linear after that.
Firefox [Version 60.0 (64-bit)]: “gallery” = 1 story on top; then 4 stories next row; then 1 per row linear after that.
Safari [Version 11.1 (12605.1.33.1.4)]: “gallery” = 1 story on top; then 4 stories next row; then 1 per row linear after that.
iPhone 7 Plus iOS 11.3.1
Firefox 11.1: Mobile
Safari: Mobile
Windows 7 PC
Firefox[Version 60.0 (64-bit)]: “gallery” = 1 story on top; then 4 stories next row; then 1 per row linear after that.
IE 11: “gallery” = 1 story on top; then 4 stories next row; then 1 per row linear after that.
I recently signed up for this news source. I love it! Thanks for creating it.
I almost never go to the WUWT home page as I use the feedly news reader to see new posts on the blog. Then I decide which one interest me…
First, more and more people are reading the web on mobiles (for all I know, they even watch “Lawrence of Arabia” on their phones). So it’s important to detect and handle them so you can render either way. For me, it’s Full Screen Gallery.
First, more and more people are reading the web on mobiles (for all I know, they even watch “Lawrence of Arabia” on their phones). So it’s important to detect and handle them so you can render either way. For me, it’s Full Screen Gallery.
Don’t change a thing ! I don’t like change !
Linear view on my desktop browser (Pale Moon – a Firefox fork). Mobile view on my phone.
I view gallery and mobile approximately 50/50.
I use firefox – and I’m not sure what it is, though it’s two column, I’d still call it linear – story in one and site stats, shameless plugs, ads, and blogroll in the 2nd – It’s always been this way for me – and the screen is maybe 23″ desktop(?) Display is the same no matter which browser I use.
FWIW, I don’t view the site on cellphone. I never have my web browser at full screen, although I usually use gallery but I have a (slight) preference for linear.
Keep up the brilliant work, Anthony, you’ve no idea how much it’s appreciated!
Linear, Firefox, 13 inch MacBook Pro, High Sierra 10.13.2
As requested, I voted. Please, whatever changes you make, do not eliminate any class of readers. The information here is worth far more than its flashy presentation or even its ease of access. Important posts deserve longer prominence, Don’t forget humor and exposing folly.
It depends on how wide I have my browser. If I it full screen It is gallery view, If I reduce it some it goes to linear view, If I reduce it a lot it goes to mobile, which is the way it is supposed to be.
At work; IE explorer, I get gallery by default, but if I shrink the screen to view more than one window at a time, it turns into Linear. Both work perfect.
At home; Firefox likes to give me Linear. Works perfect.
Gallery w/ Firefox
I voted ‘linear.’ However, if the text size is at 100%, it’s actually ‘gallery.’ It’s ‘linear’ on my screen cuz I keep the text size at 150% (for the sake of my tired old eyes).
The gallery view/google
I’m using Edge with a 27″ monitor in portrait, so I get full width in Linear.
You didn’t really describe the layout well. The first article is always full width, 2 through 5 can change layout, the rest are linear with a sidebar (no sidebar on mobile).
On a 24″ monitor in Firefox, if the browser width is greater than 1/2 screen 2-5 are horizontal, if width is less than 1/2 screen 2-5 are vertical.
I would really like the number of columns to change gradually. 1/2 width window has 2 columns, 3/4 width window has 3 columns, full width window has 4 columns, ultra-wide has 5.
Chromium on Xubuntu is Gallery, but I get Mobile view on Android, as expected.