Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269712

Relevant change in standards:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/293, also maybe
https://www.w3.org/2015/10/28-htmlcue-minutes.html

Bugs filed against other UAs:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608772
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157311
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/7426340/

Invalid values for <track kind> are currently treated as "subtitles"
by all UAs, pursuant to old specs.  This means that if we want to add
any new values in the future, old UAs will treat them as subtitles,
which might result in undesired behavior.  As such, several months
ago, the spec was changed to treat invalid values as "metadata", so
UAs will ignore unrecognized values.  No UA has yet implemented the
new spec.

The risk in implementing this is that sites might be inadvertently
using invalid values right now and relying on the fact that they get
treated as "subtitles".  I haven't done any telemetry or other
analysis at this point to gauge if this will be a problem in real
life.

If there are no objections, I intend to land this change on Sunday.
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