Re: [whatwg/url] why are backslashes accepted for slashes? (#346)

> Note, backslashes are not considered to be "valid", only "accepted"

But for a user that's effectively the same thing. The parser eats them and treats the string as if it was a valid URL.

It helped me understand that your spec says this is a fine URL. As you know, I protest against this (as well). Thanks for clarifying!

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