It's always been extremely funny to me how arguments like this and from the curl author go. "Yes, I had to change curl away from strictly accepting two slashes,

It's always been extremely funny to me how arguments like this and from the curl author go. "Yes, I had to change curl away from strictly accepting two slashes, for web compatibility. But `while(slash) { advance_parser() }`? That's completely unreasonable! `while(slash && ++i <= 3)` is so much better, and works almost as well!" Ok, whatever... As for your claim about living standards, I'd encourage you to read https://whatwg.org/faq#living-standard https://whatwg.org/faq#living-standard