Re: [mediacapture-main] Should enumerateDevices by default return an empty list? (#646)

> this might be a good experiment

I tried this locally. This broke several major videoconferencing websites I tested (I can provide the names offline). Basically, if no camera is detected, these websites will not ask getUserMedia and/or will not provide UI to request access. This change is therefore currently not web-compatible as is.

I propose we discuss this issue at next interim. My recommendation is to not pursue this particular mitigation.

The specification allows to return a list of one camera and one microphone, even though there is no such devices. This mitigation can be implemented without any spec change and is probably more web compatible.

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