If no one follows the standard, you get chaos and you will be chained to specific OS and or programs!
Okay, let's follow a standard. But wait... some here believe there is only one standard. They're both arrogant and wrong; just because it comes out of W3C doesn't make it THE standard. Lacking any enforcement teeth, it's just a standard.
What standards compete with it? Well, obviously chaos. Also IE. And the "prevailing environment", which intersects the IE standard but not entirely. The "prevailing environment" might be defined as things supported by IE going back to Version 4 that are also supported in contemporary Mozilla and Opera, as these browsers and versions comprise the vast majority of the users and the compatibility tests.
If you are going to stick to a standard, it reasonably should be the most common standard. If you select your own standard, electing yourself King (or trying to annoint someone else) while the citizenry ignores such proclaimations and does their own thing, you are merely fostering the chaos. And the prevailing installed base is the most reasonable standard if the target is a tool to parse data tested for specifically that base.
But wait... someone (me) tested those a while ago with respect to this issue and reported back that Opera going back several versions, IE going back several versions, and Mozilla all support URLs with spaces.
If you're going to live and die by the standard, at least make certain the standard is accepted and recognized by the world you intend to interact with.
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