[whatwg] Nullable types and MediaStreams

[Tommy Widenflycht (ᛏᚮᛘᛘᚤ)]

Great work!

/Tommy

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:05, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> 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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