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

Browsers are not the only applications that use URLs.

On May 10, 2016 7:40:56 PM EDT, Domenic Denicola <notifications@github.com> wrote:
>I'd suggest the following plan to any browsers interested in tightening
>the URL syntax they accept:
>
>- look through
>https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/url/urltestdata.json
>and find all non-error results that you wish became error results
>- (optionally, wait until I finish my long-delayed project to expand
>that file to give 100% coverage of the spec. Currently it gives around
>60%.)
>- Instrument all URL parsing to figure out how often these undesirable
>patterns occur
>- When the numbers come back, decide which percentage of users or pages
>you are willing to break, and pick the subset of algorithm changes you
>can make to do so up to that percentage
>- optionally, weigh the percent of users broken vs. the corresponding
>spec or implementation complexity reduction
>- start coordinating with other vendors to see which of your changes
>they're interested in. (Some cases might already behave differently in
>those other vendors' browsers, which could help!)
>- Ship, preferably in a coordinated fashion with appropriate devrel
>support.
>
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