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A comment on URL Parsing in WebKit.

Re:URL Parsing in WebKit by rtpg on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:34PM (#13094125)
We standardised HTML parsing, is URL parsing really much trickier?

Maybe we need HTML6, with an opt-in doctype and every parser fully defined.

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Re:URL Parsing in WebKit by igt0 on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:38PM (#13094137)
The standardization is "easy", however we should not forget the browser must support the wrong behavior, because a bunch of applications are expecting that behavior, otherwise the implementation of the "standardised" URL parsing would break the web.
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Re:URL Parsing in WebKit by bzbarsky on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:48PM (#13094361)
HTML parsing was actually slightly more uniform across browsers than URL parsing is. So in some ways URL parsing really is much trickier.
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