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We standardised HTML parsing, is URL parsing really much trickier? Maybe we need HTML6, with an opt-in doctype and every parser fully defined.
by rtpg 10y ago
We standardised HTML parsing, is URL parsing really much trickier?
Maybe we need HTML6, with an opt-in doctype and every parser fully defined.
- igt0 10y agoThe 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.
- bzbarsky 10y agoHTML parsing was actually slightly more uniform across browsers than URL parsing is. So in some ways URL parsing really is much trickier.