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
Running the Pale Moon browser (generally fullscreen) on Linux Mint, current monitor 1280×1024. Opening the homepage shows gallery mode (my favourite), but the page is not the full width of the browser window, only about 75-80%. After 2x “control-plus” to magnify for my aging eyesight, the browser goes to linear mode, although the page is still not quite the full window width.
Used to run a 1440×900 monitor – same non-full-width display in the browser window, but gallery mode survived the two magnification steps. And yes, clear, readable, black’n’white text in an uncluttered layout beats all weird colour (and other) effects – WUWT is great as it is in that respect. The aim is communication, after all, not to give the hapless visitors an exotic aesthetic experience as they struggle to make out the words!
(Also – have a play in the CSS Zen Garden and be amazed at what can bo done with the same page and a bit of style sheet dancing! You get to write just plain htm pages day to day, and then you can experiment freely with styling while never annoying anyone who prefers an existing style.)
Depends on what device I am using, FireFox gives Gallery and the iPAD delivers linear. I am one of those who really does not worry about the difference, I check WUWT daily so keep up with what ever content is posted. Thanks Anthony for all of your dedicated efforts to supply the world with something other than the negative ‘we are all doomed.’
Using the Brave browser, I see Gallery
I have linear because I’m mostly on my laptop (15.6″ 1920 x 1080 with text at 125%)
I prefer gallery as my main pc (2 x 22″ can’t remember the resolution, but 1 screen is 8 years old, 1 is 2 years old)
chrome on windows 10
Gallery view please.
Gallery and phone, but more often gallery. The phone view has its own set of problems. Header is never visible and article titles often isn’t either, plus it has waaaaaaaay more ads than the gallery view and more intrusive.
For my parts it is both dependent on the device i am using i have two desktop boxes one is hooked up to a wide screen format (16:9 aspect ratio) display and i usually use the gallery mode if reading on that one , and the other one is hooked up to an old style 20 inch 4:3 aspect tube display where the usual mode I prefer is the linear one and page fitted to screen width, I kind of like that one better and do most often use that set for brwsing the net, find it easier on the eyes. And then I also have a mobile and a 10 inch pad , if i am reading your web on the mobile i usually do it in the mobile mode, but on some occasion i force it change to linear the lineaer mode (request desktope site ) , and on pad i usually stick wit the galley style.
Don’the know how helpful this will be.Currently HAVING to use mobile phone to view,as my laptop died! Have an ancient ipad but it keeps “dropping out”.Intend to buy new laptop, but pensioner now,so this is in the distant future.However,would still use phone when away-grandchildren etc.Thankyou for all that you do.
“My Firefox shows me gallery for recent posts with linear below for aging posts”
Same here, but using Pale Moon as my browser – it’s a Firefox derivative. The PC is a 17″ screen laptop with 1600×900 resolution. If I reduce the width of the browser window it jumps to linear view.
Gallery, Firefox
I use Firefox with adnauseum and it gives me the linear view
I read it in linear, using explorer. Although I have firefox as well, it’s just that it’s on my favourites bar so I haven’t moved it over yet.
Mobile/Ipad.
On iPhone, the headlines are rendered in white, making them invisible.
Also on Android with Chrome
On iPhone, the headlines are rendered in white, making them invisible.
My Firefox shows me gallery for recent posts with linear below for aging posts. Safari on my ipad is always linear (and frequently crashes causing page to reload).
Mostly I view in Gallery.
Gallery View, perfect, everything fine, no changes needed.
Fred from the Swiss mountains
Mobile view.
Firefox gallery view. Fantastic site ! Don’t change anything.
Anthony, first let me say I cherish this website and am very grateful for your hosting it.
I use a small screen monitor at home and sneak peaks at a wide screen at work. My conclusion is that i can only read one story at a time. I am also a codger and like things as they are. Not much help, but I thought i would toss it in.
Brave gallery view here.
Gallery
Well as the website is responsive, these results won’t be a surprise: in Firefox full-screen gives the gallery format with left and right dark grey regions outside the window, and making the screen small enough gives the linear format with the right-side “links-column” still there, and making the screen even more smaller gives the mobile format (just one column). My mobile just gives the mobile format.
When I use the Chromium browser (a Linux edition of Chrome) it acts just like Firefox.
My standard use is full-screen on the desktop. So for me it is mostly the gallery format.
I see all three, depending, as you state. I mostly come for content. As long as it is easy to find, I like it. And, I thank you for your dedication. Much appreciated!