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

@mark-otaris 

While generally I am for "fixing" something in one swift action regardless of what it would break, the reason I am okay with incremental changes is to only incrementally break websites. Obviously there will be people who don't fix their URLs, but those are the people we increasingly start to care less about. There are stages to deprecation (soft, then hard), and it's in many people's best interest to start with the smallest breakages, and work your way up over time so people start noticing that WHATWG is being serious about deprecating and implementing these breaking changes, so they start to get a move on themselves.

If WHATWG went ahead and implemented the perfect spec with a massive amount of breaking changes, it would be up to the browser developers to figure out how they want to do the incremental breaking changes, so while WHATWG is responsible for writing a standard that Does It Right™, they should also be responsible for standardizing _how_ implementers make the gradual changes, so everything is done in more-or-less sync.

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