[whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI

[Julian Reschke]

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>>> The issue is that it's *not* the same thing.
>>>
>>> Well, no, not exactly. But they perform essentially the same task, 
>>> modulo a few characters. And since one is a superset of the other (as 
>>> long as URL encoding is UTF-8) I don't see a point in having both.
>>
>> Well, then let's just agree that we disagree on that.
> 
> I would still be interested in hearing your point. Is it whitespace?

...and other characters that are not allowed in URIs and IRIs, such as 
"{" and "}" (which therefore can be used as delimiters).

BR, Julian