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

@annevk:

Premise 3 comes from

> the URL Standard […] consider Markdown and the location bar out of scope.

Premise 2, I'll just quote RFC 3986

> URIs are often transmitted through formats that do not provide a clear context for their interpretation. For example, there are many occasions when a URI is included in plain text; examples include text sent in email, USENET news, and on printed paper. In such cases, it is important to be able to delimit the URI from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for part of the URI. 

RFC 3986 — which you claim to obsolete and replace — has an entire section on parsing URLs out of plain text.

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