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Re: Duplicate links...

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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Jun 7, 2006 6:10PM

On 6/7/06 6:59 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> But, as I mentioned already, Cynthia shouldn't (and in my modest
> testing, rightly doesn't) fail pages with duplicate links. It's only
> when you have the same link text pointing to different URLs that you get
> a failure. So, there isn't actually a validation issue here, unless
> Stephanie's links are in fact pointing to different places?

They aren't my links... :) It's someone I was helping on a list... And they
SWEAR they're the same (on cursory look, they appear to be -- except one..
And they've tried them with trailing slashes, without trailing slashes,
etc...)

The only thing I see is the opposite... He has DIFFERENT link text to one
URL that is the same...

Top:
<a href="/legal/" class="p7PMtrg" id="n7">Legal</a>

Bottom:
<a href="/legal" title="terms of use for this website">Terms of Use</a>

(and this one has the trailing slash on one and none on the other... I think
he was testing it)...

Mysterious. :)