Re: [whatwg/url] Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings (#479) from Alwin Blok on 2022-08-31 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from August 2022)

From: Alwin Blok <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0700
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> the result is not as clean or clear as people may be hoping for, and it needs supplemented with various hacks to coerce it in to the correct result. The web grew organically, not systematically, and URLs certainly do show that.

This is not true: there is a logic to things that grow organically. There is some noise and randomness, but not nearly as much as you think. The challenge is to uncover it, rather than to create it. 

The WHATWG URL standard can be very neatly characterised, it really isn't bad.


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