[whatwg] Nullable types and MediaStreams

Per-Erik Brodin per-erik.brodin at ericsson.com
Mon Jun 13 23:54:27 PDT 2011


Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Per-Erik Brodin:
>> The DOMString arguments 'options' and 'configuration' are never
>> referred to as being null, and thus I think it is safe to assume
>> that they will not be null and that the default conversion rules
>> apply (http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#es-DOMString). The
>> callback arguments are all referred to as being null so I think it
>> is safe to assume that they can be null.
>
> Interface types now *do not* include null as one of their values unless
> you make the type nullable explicitly.  The HTML spec hasn’t been
> updated for this yet, though I have written a patch to do so:
>
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10640
>

I am aware of that. What I mean is the conclusions you can draw from
reading the spec text. I would expect the expected behavior to be the
same after this change, right?

//Per-Erik


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