Re: [remote-playback] Add a section about browser initiated remote playback

The Presentation API uses the expression "from the browser" for a 
similar feature, so I suggest we do that here as well.

I think it would be useful to relate that feature to the user 
interface that user agents expose to users for media controls too:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#expose-a-user-interface-to-the-user

I would expect most implementations will simply add a button there. As
 with the Presentation API, the feature may be coupled with the 
selection of the remote device, so we may do not want to restrict the 
feature to a control in this user interface (one could argue that the 
notion of user interface is flexible enough to encompass that 
possibility, though).

In short, I would suggest to replace the first paragraph by:
```html
<p>
  A user agent MAY support <a data-lt="establish a connection with the
 remote playback device">
  connecting to a remote playback device</a> from the browser, e.g. by
 including appropriate
  controls to <a data-lt="expose a user interface to the user">the 
user interface that is exposed
  to the user</a>. This feature is known as <dfn>browser initiated 
remote playback</dfn>. A
  <a>user agent</a> that supports <a>browser initiated remote 
playback</a> SHOULD initiate
  the remote playback only when the user has expressed an intention to
 do so via a user gesture,
  for example by clicking a button in the browser.
</p>
```

... and to add the following term to the terminology section:
```html
<a 
href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#expose-a-user-interface-to-the-user">expose
 a user interface to the user</a>
```

I thought the spec already had some prose around these lines. While 
it's not a change of API surface per se, that seems an important 
feature to highlight. It provides additional context to understand 
some aspects of #41 in particular: the transition to remote playback 
may happen under the hoods without the app doing anything, and 
potential changes of behavior may "surprise" the app.

In other words, I wonder whether we may include that text in the 
updated Working Draft that the group is about to publish. @anssiko 
@avayvod what do you think?

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