Starbucks Style Guide
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Also interesting, but less technical, is the BBC's style guide: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel
I'm a grammar nazi at heart methinks.
Good read though, although I think the BBC has started to make some serious mistakes and are getting a little too experimental. All the animations they keep doing everywhere are getting in the way of the actual reading and are very distracting. The home page is now looking a real mess. At least they've got rid of the annoying 'slide' effect their carousel had which meant if you moved your mouse around the whole page seemed to jerk around.
I too am a grammar Nazi, and the very first rule off grammar is that sentences, delimited by punctuation marks such as the point, have subject and verbs, unlike your four sentences above.
Or maybe it is because English is not my mothergrammar?
And, of course, 9/10 people who read that sentence (yes, a single sentence) knew exactly how the OP was intending it to sound in their head.
I guess what I'm saying is, you can be pedantic around here, but not to the level where it looks like intentional misinterpretation.
Style guides are usually created when content is generated by separate groups on their own with no central coordination, and the style guide is to try and get them to all look the same.
But certainly it isn't uncommon for a company or design/development shop to have an internal style guide.
Also, even when I'm a solo developer doing in-house stuff, I always always always request at least a simple style guide so my efforts can be consistent and high-quality.
The Starbucks site is actually more complicated than you would think, especially if you login and start tracking the cards you have linked to your account.
Firstly, they're relying on javascript to do the striping effect, applying a class to even rows. If someone has javascript turned off this effect will degrade even in modern browsers.
Secondly, .stripes tbody tr:nth-of-type(2n){ background: #f6f6f6} achieves exactly the same thing in all modern browsers, and degrades just as well as the javascript version (even if javascript is off).
So I wouldn't expect them to be very cutting edge in terms of modern browser practices. Sad but true.
Even Microsoft leadership has admitted ASP.NET MVC is a better choice for public facing (non-intranet) websites.
My comment was only to make the point that they were using an outdated web framework, so it's likely that their markup is probably also outdated.
This is why you're getting downvotes, you really don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.
I'll definitely be adding something like the "prefs" thing in the top right corner of this style guide, that was awesome.