Re: [whatwg/dom] Add AbortSignal.timeout(ms) (#951)

I don't think `AbortSignal.prototype.timeout()` would be a good API. An `AbortSignal` should only be able to *observe* the aborted state, it should not be able to *change* if or when it becomes aborted. For example, you may want to pass the same `AbortSignal` to several function calls so you can abort them all at once, but you don't want any single call to cause itself *and all other calls* to become aborted. Aborting the signal should only be done by the `AbortController`, so perhaps you'd want `AbortController.prototype.timeout()` instead. (Although that's still kinda weird...)

Anyway, this goes beyond the scope of the proposed `AbortSignal.timeout()` method. Let's keep it as a one-shot for now. 🙂

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