Re: [whatwg/url] It's not immediately clear that "URL syntax" and "URL parser" conflict (#118) from Jasper St. Pierre on 2016-05-11 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from May 2016)

From: Jasper St. Pierre <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:52:08 -0700
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This standard is supposed to provide an interpretation for URLs found in the wild on the web. For people writing software that interfaces with the web, I find the specification valuable.

If you don't believe me that I've found URLs that have single or triple-slashes on the web at wild, well, I'm not sure what to say. These URLs might break in some older or niche browsers like IE and Safari, but the failure case is that the user would simply get an error page and then go back to what they were doing before.

As mentioned, Firefox, Chrome and Edge all have behavior to support them now.

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