Re: Draft [URL] reference update to informative text

On 2014-10 -09, at 06:59, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
>> That's quite remarkable given that there are no known implementations of
>> the URL "Living Standard", its interface names were recently changed
>> (e.g., URLUtils), and the only bits that have been verified as interoperable
>> are those that overlap RFC3986 and RFC3987.  Even the basic parsing
>> algorithms are dependent on experimental APIs.
> 
> Both Chrome and Firefox ship the API.

Since when?

Is there anything like a public implementation report which tracks that?

What about other browsers?  Do they have plans?

> URLUtils was not a recent change
> and is a bookkeeping detail anyway. It's not exposed as such and has
> been around forever in every browser (it's what HTMLAnchorElement,
> Location, ..., use to define their API).

Something which is "not exposed as such" is difficult to demonstrate as a public reference-able stable thing.

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Received on Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:37:31 UTC