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What's with the weird font on the list? Or is that just my browser? john 07:37, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
'Pears to be your browser. What are you using? -- Rob C (Alarob) 02:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
The numbering of Governors on this list, are inconsistant with the numberings at Ala Govenor bios (example: George Wallace, Bob Riley etc). GoodDay 23:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
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There are some formatting-changes being attempted, which have the admirable goal of getting the official portraits into the 'pedia. However, the downside is that the pictures are pretty big, not just in bytes to be downloaded, but in the screen-real-estate that is required to hold them.
Here is the page as of August,[1] with selected pictures shown to the right of the table:
Here is the upgrade as of September,[2] with the majority of the governor-rows having a picture embedded *into* their row of the table:
I think there is something to be said for avoiding excess whitespace: it allows the readership to better understand the history of the position. In particular, on 4" screens that some smartphones offer, a compact layout is a Good Thing. Even on a relatively-very-large desktop display, the change to the table-structure is significant: around three times the textual-data is visible, if we don't have large portraits in every row of the table.
I don't have a firm stance on the best way forward here; it is possible to somewhat mitigate the excess-whitespace-problem, simply by reducing the image-size of the portraits, but of course, that makes the images less compelling. Is there some way that we can have a tiny thumbnail-image of the portrait, say 50pixels high, and when the readership hovers their mouse (or taps their finger) on the image-thumbnail, they see a zoomed-in-version of the picture, without leaving the page, and without obscuring the textual data in the list? If so, that might solve two problems, getting rid of excess whitespace, and permitting all 53+ governor portraits to be included without forcing large download-sizes. Ping User:Golbez and User:Spartan7W, who are working on these layout changes methinks. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 22:53, 14 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
# Picture Governor Term in office Party Term Lt. Governor 75px Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Ivey]] 50px Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 25px Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 17px Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 75px not Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 50px not Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 25px not Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey 17px not Robert J. Bentley January 17, 2011 – Incumbent Republican 69+ Kay Ivey
I think 50px is far too small. 75px seems like the smallest size which is sufficiently expanded to see in reasonable detail the individual, without needing to click on that governor's main article. Additionally, it depends on the list and nature of the list. For Alabama, there are many governors, many lacking an available (or existant) portrait. For more defined lists, like California, larger files are better. Spartan7W § 00:58, 18 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
What's the best way to handle these? It seems weird to have them lumped in after the governors they were acting for, like Beasley. One could propose that it should read Wallace from Jan 18 1971 to June 5 1972, Beasley from June 5 1972 to July 7 1972, and Wallace from July 7 1972 to January 15 1979. But on the other hand, Wallace was still governor during the time that Beasley was acting, so it seems incorrect to have a gap there. Any ideas? --Golbez (talk) 06:28, 21 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Alright, what's this 'midnight' thing about & why (if it's accurate) hasn't it been added to the post-1907 governors & lieutenant governors bio articles? GoodDay (talk) 07:05, 6 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Is there a meaningful distinction between an "acting" who replaced a deceased or resigned governor, and one who properly "succeeded" to the office? Like, I know they can be differing concepts, but are they so close as to be irrelevant in most cases? In the few cases where it matters (like where the president of the senate loses their senate seat while acting as governor, but I don't think that happens in Alabama) we could go into more detail, but I noticed that Kallenbach says they didn't care about the distinction, so I'm wondering if we should. It starts to feel like synthesis when I'm interpreting a constitution. --Golbez (talk) 21:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply