Re: [mediacapture-record] Fingerprint surface coming from 'isTypeSupported' - needs consideration? (#142)

The only information of value that `isTypeSupported()` can conceivably provide is whether the browser is , for example, Firefox or Chromium or Chrome, which can be determined by various means without executing `MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported()`, including simply recording a very brief `MediaStream` with `MediaRecorder` (no permissions required) and checking if the resulting media file has a duration, where Chrome and Chromium produce media files that do not have a duration.

It can be reasonably concluded that  Mozilla browsers will not support `h264` or `avc1` in a WebM container per https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=980822. However, Firefox might, in the future, support FLAC  in WebM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606822.

Until the specific "Fingerprint surface" vector is clearly described am not certain precisely what the issue is with `isTypeSupported()`?



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