Re: [whatwg/url] Consider removing the `gopher` special-case. (#342)

> I don't really see the point of breaking the parser behavior, especially since you indicate you plan on continuing to do so. I don't think that's a good idea as it erodes trust in stability of standards.

I didn't mean to imply that we'd drop `ftp:` URL parsing the instant we dropped support for the FTP protocol. Given the usage, I expect that to take some time to be able to do safely, as with many other deprecations. Still, it seems like the right eventual direction, doesn't it? If there's no special behavior, special-casing the scheme is just cruft.

> There's no parsing for `blob:` URLs in the URL Standard.

Steps 3-6 of https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-parsing process `blob:` distinctly from other scheme types. But I think I agree with the wider claim that the parser should be scheme-agnostic.

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