URL Standard (WHATWG)
Official docs outline
7 sections- Goals and infrastructure
Why the URL Standard replaces RFC 3986 for browsers.
- Percent-encoded bytes
Percent-encode sets and decoding.
- Hosts (domains and IP addresses)
Domain to ASCII, IPv4/IPv6 parsing and forbidden host code points.
- URLs: syntax and parsing
URL record, scheme-specific parsing and the basic URL parser.
- URL serializing
Serialization of URL records and origins.
- application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Form encoding and parsing rules.
- URL API
URL and URLSearchParams classes.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.