Re: [whatwg/url] Semi-colon (;) should be illegal in URL hostname parsing (#159)

I noticed Safari doesn't accept '<' or '>' but Firefox does, and Chrome percent-encodes these characters.

According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 we should only accept ALPHA DIGIT -._~!$&'()*+,;= or properly percent-encoded values, which would have been decoded at this point.  Where did the current list of forbidden characters come from?  I would support a change to match rfc3986 more closely by having a list of allowed characters instead of a list of forbidden characters.

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