Re: RFCs versus WHATWG "living standard"
Peter Bex 28 Aug 2026 07:42 UTC
On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 03:30:46PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I don't *really* want to bring this up but I think it's important to
> at least acknowledge that the RFCs are officially deprecated in favor of
> the WHATWG "living standard" document.
>
[...]
> Anyway, enough about my personal grievances with WHATWG. My point is
> that this is the spec the browsers use and some modern URI parser libs
> follow (at least partly), so the SRFI should probably mention how it
> relates to that spec, even if just repeating the problems I see with it.
The current draft still doesn't mention the WHATWG spec. I think it'd
be good to define how/why it relates to that spec and the RFC, which is
considered deprecated by many.
Cheers,
Peter