Thread:Vandraedha/@comment-4779535-20130409122531/@comment-3474542-20130409232449

James is just echoing what I have said in the past. In addition, it doesn't matter if the navbar begins collapsed or uncollapsed... unless we use Tabview, all of the images in the navbar will load when the page loads. This is a Bad Thing.

As far as the reason for the alphabetical navbar: over 75% of the animal pages were missing a navbar, or using the wrong navbar. Not only that, but editors were getting confused about which navbar to put an animal on, and it would either not be put on a navbar, or be put on multiple navs.

With one A-Z bar, you don't have to go back and change the bar every time the animal gets updated. You also don't get editors confused about where to put the animal, and it cuts down on duplicates.