Re: [whatwg/url] Support relative URLs (#531)

I did a branch of jsdom/whatwg-url a while ago that uses a modular parsing/resolving algorithm, passes all of the tests (well, except 5/1305 that I was looking to get some help with) and has everything in place to start supporting relative URLs. 

I did not post it because the changes are so large, as-is, that it would not be feasible to adopt them in the standard. I was thinking about a way to provide the same benefits incrementally and with less intrusive changes, so that it could be merged into the spec gracefully. However, I have the impression that even if I'd manage to do that, the changes will be resisted for reasons that are not technical but social and emotional. So I am leaving it here as is. I am disappointed by the situation, I hope it will work out eventually, because support for relative URLs would be very useful to people, and also because a modular/ compositional approach enables you to talk with precision about the constituents that URLs are made of, improving the spec itself and all the discussions around it. 

There have been good reasons why this has not been done before. It is a messy problem especially in combination with the different browser behaviours. I've built on that work and solved the issue, but as usual, there's more to it than solving the technical challenges. 

Part of the discussion around this was in #479. 

The branch, as-is... is here: https://github.com/alwinb/whatwg-url/tree/relative-urls. The readme is no longer accurate, Sorry for that. 

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