Make MediaDevices and related functions and types secure context only

Category: Realtime / Communication
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 74)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Make the MediaDevices interface and its related functions and types, including getUserMedia(), enumerateDevices() and getDisplayMedia() available only in secure contexts.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-main/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=927230

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices

Samples: https://webrtc.github.io/samples/

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