Re: [whatwg/url] Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings (#479)

Hi Larry,
I have no comments whatever here on "drop#" but I want to reply to your question as if it was about RFC6874 (except that has been pending for 9 years). No, it has not been implemented and for good reason: it specified something essentially unimplementable. We did a bad job. Hopefully, 6874bis is completely implementable. As was said upthread, it will only become running code if the browser community wants it, and that won't happen because the IETF says so, or even because WHATWG or @alwinb says so, but entirely because a substantial set of browser users say "we need this". All we're trying to do with 6874bis is place a clearly specified marker.
And I think that goes for every single feature of URI/IRI syntax. With all respect for @alwinb's effort, neither perfect ABNF nor his spec ultimately counts, compared to user requirements and running code.


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