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

What exactly is that value?

I can see one distinct value right now: that "polished" version is more compatible with RFC3986-URLs, so copying the cleaned up version to external tools has a much higher chance of working.

I however would like a spec that is clear on exactly what is allowed and what then isn't allowed. What is allowed is handled by the (compliant) parsers, what isn't allowed is rejected. Everything that is silently handled for the robustness principle becomes accepted and is then considered valid.

If a spec-compliant parser accepts and works with a given syntax, then that syntax is valid. We can't separate allowed by parser and allowed by syntax.

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