Merge branch 'develop' into css-variables

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#	demo/dist/demo.js
#	demo/dist/demo.js.map
#	demo/dist/demo.min.js
#	demo/dist/demo.min.js.map
#	dist/plyr.css
#	dist/plyr.js
#	dist/plyr.js.map
#	dist/plyr.min.js
#	dist/plyr.min.js.map
#	dist/plyr.polyfilled.js
#	dist/plyr.polyfilled.js.map
#	dist/plyr.polyfilled.min.js
#	dist/plyr.polyfilled.min.js.map
#	gulpfile.js
#	src/sass/components/captions.scss
#	src/sass/components/control.scss

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diff --git a/src/js/utils/urls.js b/src/js/utils/urls.js
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+// ==========================================================================
+// URL utils
+// ==========================================================================
+
+import is from './is';
+
+/**
+ * Parse a string to a URL object
+ * @param {string} input - the URL to be parsed
+ * @param {boolean} safe - failsafe parsing
+ */
+export function parseUrl(input, safe = true) {
+    let url = input;
+
+    if (safe) {
+        const parser = document.createElement('a');
+        parser.href = url;
+        url = parser.href;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        return new URL(url);
+    } catch (e) {
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+
+// Convert object to URLSearchParams
+export function buildUrlParams(input) {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams();
+
+    if (is.object(input)) {
+        Object.entries(input).forEach(([key, value]) => {
+            params.set(key, value);
+        });
+    }
+
+    return params;
+}