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

@bagder 
> I think that is much better as it doesn't imply that two slashes is any sort of rule, just a suggestion.

It is intended to be a rule for people or software writing URLs, and for conformance checkers to check against. It is not intended to be a suggestion.

Someone maintaining a conformance checker would have a harder time to motivate why something is an error if it's only a suggestion in the standard. People writing URLs are more likely to ignore suggestions than rules, which means they will waste more time debugging their mistakes if conformance checkers don't point them out, or they will never notice that their URLs don't work in some legacy user agents that they didn't bother to test. It is worthwhile to do what we can to avoid these things.

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