I think they just wanted to consistently handle the port, rather than exclude it when it is the default. I can understand wanting to be consistent, but their im

I think they just wanted to consistently handle the port, rather than exclude it when it is the default. I can understand wanting to be consistent, but their implementation even goes against the W3 specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/url/#url-decomposition-idl-attributes http://www.w3.org/TR/url/#url-decomposition-idl-attributes