McCain’s home page layout completely breaks when Javascript is disabled, placing the golf gear tab dead nuts at the page’s focal point. McCain’s menus also fail, which probably does not help the search rankings of his inner pages. Those who heard my spiel at SMX Advanced Developer Day know that I browse with Firefox and the NoScript add-on for the sake of security, and to help identify usability problems with websites.

Barak Obama’s webmaster seems to have done better. Obama’s home page is fully functional with scripts disabled. Even the pop up menus work, because they’re driven by CSS.