Insecure links

[DiggitCamara]

So… while perusing through the latest press release by The Donald, I noticed that the footnotes weren’t linked properly.

And when I hovered over them, I noticed that they revealed where the files were originally (for instance footnote 26 tries to take me to a file at the users download location; apparently the user’s name starts with “ashle”)

The link, in case it’s corrected is currently
file:///C:/Users/ashle/Downloads/06.22.2016%20Election%20Stakes%20Footnotes.docx#_ftn26

at The Donald’s site.

But, as we all know, “The Donald” has nothing but “the bestest Web sites” :dubious:

[Dr.Strangelove]

Actually, the external links seem to mostly go to the right place. It’s the backlinks that are wrong–that is, when you click on the number, it should take you back to that place in the document where the footnote citation was referenced. The web page was clearly generated from a Word document, but the internal links used an absolute path instead of a relative one. All the numbers link to the .docx file with a suffix of #_ftnref1, #_ftnref2, etc. Kinda stupid, but it was likely an error either in Word or in their web publishing software.

[running_coach]

@Dr.Strangelove

Actually, the external links seem to mostly go to the right place. It’s the backlinks that are wrong–that is, when you click on the number, it should take you back to that place in the document where the footnote citation was referenced. The web page was clearly generated from a Word document, but the internal links used an absolute path instead of a relative one. All the numbers link to the .docx file with a suffix of #_ftnref1, #_ftnref2, etc. Kinda stupid, but it was likely an error either in Word or in their web publishing software.

I’ll bet the intern that was tasked with making the site used one of those build-your-own hosting sites.

[DiggitCamara]

@Dr.Strangelove

Actually, the external links seem to mostly go to the right place. It’s the backlinks that are wrong–that is, when you click on the number, it should take you back to that place in the document where the footnote citation was referenced. The web page was clearly generated from a Word document, but the internal links used an absolute path instead of a relative one. All the numbers link to the .docx file with a suffix of #_ftnref1, #_ftnref2, etc. Kinda stupid, but it was likely an error either in Word or in their web publishing software.

Correct. However, for someone who is consantly harping about the “quality” of their products, I would consider it to be very embarassing.

On the other hand, I haven’t looked at his opponent’s website, so maybe it’s normal to have these kinds of ugly bugs all around.