Re: [whatwg/url] Percent-decode more stuff? (#87)

@annevk It's important to understand, as mentioned before, that our URL code is shared across a variety of Google client platforms, and, even within Chrome, shared through a variety of layers - IPC, networking, UI (and, of that, security UI as a distinct subset), and of course, the web-visible exposure provided by the URL API.

While the URL API itself has no intrinsic needs that we're immediately aware of (short of checking compat issues), what is essential for a variety of checks and comparisons is that we have a consistent set of behaviours and presentations for URLs, and that inherently necessitates normalization, such that any two URLs, if they represent the same underlying URL, are treated equivalently. This behaviour has been extensively integrated into our code, because it was one of the motivations for the library itself.

Again, that's not to say we can't change, but it's certainly not a priority, given how significant an undertaking it would be. I think @gibson042's concerns are reasonable, and I suspect that many web developers would be surprised. I have trouble accepting @achristensen07's arguments against it.

To put the counter-argument forward: Why do you feel that normalization would be bad?

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