Re: [whatwg/url] It's not immediately clear that "URL syntax" and "URL parser" conflict (#118) from Daniel Stenberg on 2017-01-31 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from January 2017)

From: Daniel Stenberg <notifications@github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:50:30 -0800
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> Unintuitive error-handling behavior

How does the syntax spec help with this? It doesn't describe the syntax the parser accepts!

> Errors involving known interoperability problems in legacy user agents

How does the syntax spec help with this? It doesn't describe the syntax the parser accepts!

> Errors that risk exposing authors to security attacks

If the syntax spec describes this, why on earth does the parsec spec allow things that puts users at risk.

... and so on.

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