> Seriously, I'm quite surprised that basic URL handling is still a problem. Making a game to bring this to the attention of a wider audience is certainly a goo

> Seriously, I'm quite surprised that basic URL handling is still a problem. Making a game to bring this to the attention of a wider audience is certainly a good idea. I think the problem is that a spec exists, but existing browser incorrectly implemented it (hello Netscape), and given their prevalence browsers are stuck with weird hacks so that existing websites continue to work. In particular around percent escapes there's lots of trouble. Nothing really specs the encoding to be used for those percent escapes (the RFC only has some odd notes on encodings), and there's a whole bunch of odd behaviours, e.g. how characters are handled when pasting a URL into an address bar vs having it as an href on a web page.