Re: Draft [URL] reference update to informative text

On 2014-10-09 17:46, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>> Based on these results, I believe that it is very premature to tell
>> implementors that the spec is ready to be implemented, as they may very well
>> find themselves implementing something that has not yet had wide review, and
>> may very well change.
>
> To be clear, none of what you found is surprising. I ran the same
> tests while writing the specification. (Except for some of the
> recently added ones which appear to be buggy as I pointed out
> elsewhere.)
>
> There's clearly some variation among user agents for these edge cases,
> but at the end of the day they have to converge and that requires an
> attempt to implement the URL Standard.

Do they really need to converge?

I do agree that UAs need to do the same for valid input. I happen to 
disagree that they absolutely need to do the same thing for broken input.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:04:48 UTC