Exactly. Unfortunately they can't even bring themselves to do this.
See e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/references.html#refsURL wherein they add in a non-normative note a link to the WHATWG URL spec, but in the normative reference text instead link to an old, outdated working draft from 2012 which specifies an incorrect algorithm and APIs that do not exist in any browser like getParameterNames() and so on.
It's very tragic, and not at all good for the health of the web.
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Exactly. Unfortunately they can't even bring themselves to do this.
See e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/references.html#refsURL wherein they add in a non-normative note a link to the WHATWG URL spec, but in the normative reference text instead link to an old, outdated working draft from 2012 which specifies an incorrect algorithm and APIs that do not exist in any browser like getParameterNames() and so on.
It's very tragic, and not at all good for the health of the web.