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

I'm not completely sure I accurately understand the last comment, but I think that what @jyasskin calls 'exposing relative-ness' is just what this issue is asking for. It is asking for an addition to the API that exposes a parsed version of what is called a "relative reference" in the parlance of RFC 3986 (I usually call it a relative URL). 

I'm arguing in favour of it because I would like the standard to define an analogue of "relative reference". This is not currently the case, so in places where relative references are useful or needed, people cannot refer to the standard for guidance. 

@annevk points out that for such a change to be considered, they need examples where relative references are useful in a browser context, so we're looking for such use cases. 

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