>> The original stylesheets explicitly go out of their way to do it that
>> way.
>
> Can we find any evidence of the reasoning? As you say, that clearly was
> an intentional choice.
Given the code, my guess would be the well-intentioned but misplaced
desire to avoid a redundancy, i.e. two links side-by-side which point to
the same place.
--
Fabien.