[whatwg/url] It's not immediately clear that "URL syntax" and "URL parser" conflict (#118)

URL syntax is a model for valid URLs---basically "authoring requirements". The URL parser section allows parsing URLs which do not follow URL syntax.

An easy example is `https://////example.com`, which is disallowed because the portion after `https:` contradicts

> A scheme-relative URL
must be "//", followed by a host, optionally followed by ":" and a port, optionally followed by a path-absolute URL. 

/cc @bagder via some Twitter confusion this morning.

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