Re: [webauthn] explicitly mention running over TLS in WebAuthn API intro (#1201)

@equalsJeffH 

Would have to see the text proposal, but bear in mind that secure context does not necessarily mean the webpage was retrieved via a TLS connection.  For instance, https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-contexts/#localhost has a 127.0.0.1 carve-out that in my experience browser vendors have honored with respect to other API's requiring secure contexts (e.g. Encrypted Media Extensions).

Rather than try to paraphrase what a secure context actually means in the Webauthn intro, I would consider adding a reference to how the UA should determine if a webpage corresponds to a secure context: https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-contexts/#algorithms 

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