This conversation originated at work when we started comparing the CSS used by McCain and Obama (thanks for the link Sam!)...
- Ralph W.
- http://js.johnmccain.com/App_Themes/McCain08/newstyles.css
- Travis H.
- haha
- compare with: http://www.barackobama.com/css/globalv3.css
- even by the file names alone you can tell that obama's is a more scalable solution
- Ralph W.
- It's even localized
/* Espanol Navigation 2.0
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
- Travis H.
- i like how the absolute last section of mccain's is for the header
- Ernie B.
- that is so fitting
- Ralph W.
- cause you can only get head in the white house by going down
- Travis H.
TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase;
- Ernie B.
- hahaha
- Ralph W.
- that's great
- Travis H.
- it looks like his css was developed by the department of redundancy department since the font-family is defined in almost every selector
- Ralph W.
- more of the same
- Travis H.
- haha, good one
- Ernie B.
- may as well be tables
- Travis H.
INPUT.groovybutton {- not that there's anything wrong with that
- i love this class name:
DIV.actioncenterbluebutton_red A {- interesting, Obama's uses EM sizing while McCain's uses PX
- Ralph W.
- not that there's anything wrong with that
- Ernie B.
- also fitting
- Travis H.
- I swear it's as if their CSS files directly correspond with their campaigns
- Obama knows the IE6 hack:
* html #nav li * { position: relative; }- interesting, they also use CSS sprites
- those trendy fuckers
- wow and their spanish classnames are actually spanish!
#nav-donacion {- Ralph W.
- McCain blocks those classes at the firewall...see what I did there?
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