[whatwg] proposal: Add support for masking to canvas

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 1/30/13 12:55 AM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
> >        void maskImage(optional MaskOptions options);
> > 
> > Why is it optional?
> 
> Because http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#idl-operations says (if you
> scroll down a ways):
> 
>   If the type of an argument is a dictionary type or a union type that
>   has a dictionary type as one of its flattened member types, and this
>   argument is either the final argument or is followed by an optional
>   argument, then the argument MUST be specified as optional.  Such
>   arguments are always considered to have a default value of an empty
>   dictionary, unless otherwise specified.

That's weird. heycam, can you elaborate on this? The addHitRegion() case 
in particular never makes sense to be called without a dictionary 
containing at least one member. Do we have to allow it?

(The webidl checker doesn't seem to catch this particular bug, by the way.)

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