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

@nox Yet, you only contacted browser vendors. You write that the goal of the WHATWG is to

> Align RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 with contemporary implementations and obsolete them in the process.

That includes replacing the URL spec and *every* implementation that uses it. From offline usage to libraries in languages, from autolinking regex used on Android to inter-process communication schemes. From fileformats that use URLs (every XML implementation) to low-level filesystem APIs in every operating system.

If you state that your official goal is to obsolete and replace the standard all these use, you'll need to open a discussion with a great deal more stakeholders. Or you need to go back, and rethink if replacing the entire URL spec, and every usage of it, is such a good idea.

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