make 'when' parameter of start() and stop() optional

[olivierthereaux]

Originally reported on W3C Bugzilla ISSUE-20728 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:32:53 GMT
Reported by Olivier Thereaux
Assigned to

From ROC:
“Is there a reason not to make the first parameter of AudioBufferSourceNode.start()/stop() optional? Seems like it would be convenient to have it just default to zero so authors could write "node.start()" to make it play "right now", and ditto for node.stop().”
-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013JanMar/0175.html

Editor agreed: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013JanMar/0176.html

[olivierthereaux]

Original comment by Olivier Thereaux on W3C Bugzilla. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:40:12 GMT

This is a uncontroversial change, should just be done and close.

All, feel free to submit patches including both prose and IDL.

[olivierthereaux]

Original comment by Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] on W3C Bugzilla. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:30:49 GMT

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/rev/21c9a7bdbc3a

We still need to decide whether it makes sense to adopt similar changes to the OscillatorNode, and also to the alternate names for these two node types.