[whatwg] Nullable types and MediaStreams

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Per-Erik Brodin wrote:
> 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?

Thanks to Cameron's fantastic work, this is fixed now, so there should no 
longer be a need for reading between the lines. Please let me know if it's 
still ambiguous, though.

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