I think the plan was to improve security and dogfood rust. If we're also signing up to increase spec compliance as part of the rewrite, that should be called out as an explicit goal--with a plan for dealing with non-compliant sites.
--Jet On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:33 AM, James Graham <ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote: > On 30/04/15 23:42, Jet Villegas wrote: > >> I wonder why we'd allow *any* parsing differences here? Couldn't you just >> assert and fail hard while you're testing against our tests and in >> Nightly? >> I imagine the differences you don't catch this way will be so subtle that >> crowd-sourcing is unlikely to catch them either. >> > > I imagine the issue is that the current Gecko URL parser isn't 100% > spec-compliant (see [1]), so the cases that differ aren't necessarily bugs > that have to be fixed in rust-url. > > [1] > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/web-platform/meta/url/a-element.html.ini > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
