Re: [whatwg/url] It's not immediately clear that "URL syntax" and "URL parser" conflict (#118) from Jasper St. Pierre on 2017-10-19 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from October 2017)

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 02:31:32 -0700
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> So, it’s not the same everywhere. Useful standard then. I thought a standard is defined as a format that is guaranteed to work everywhere.

This specification is designed to be used when parsing URLs from HTML, as used in e.g. the href attribute of an <a> tag. It says nothing about parsing user input in e.g. a location bar. In my browser, typing "some query" into the URL takes me to a search engine, and typing "example.com" navigates me to "http://example.com". This behavior isn't specified by the URL specification, and shouldn't be.

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