Hi Maté and all,
There is a pre-existing userland implementation of WHATWG-URL at <https://github.com/TRowbotham/URL-Parser>.
Packagist reports 600K+ downloads <https://packagist.org/packages/rowbot/url>.
It is from Trevor Rowbotham, who is acknowledged in the WHATWG-URL specification itself <https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#acknowledgments>.
(There is one alternative implementation, <https://packagist.org/packages/esperecyan/url>
<https://github.com/esperecyan/url>, but it
does not look as recent or robust.)
If we want a full-featured WHATWG-URL implementation in core, would it not be preferable (with
Trevor's permission) to convert rowbot/url from userland to core instead? Surely conversion
from an existing, well-tested, widely-used implementation would be easier/better/faster than writing
an implementation from scratch.
-- pmj