[whatwg/dom] Rename Range's 'start' and 'end' to 'range start' and 'range end'. (PR #1168)

https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-range-start

> A range has two associated boundary points — a **start** and **end**.

These definitions are correctly namespaced, but the words are still pretty generic, which has two problems:
* It's so generic, it makes some of the more complex sentences in the DOM spec harder to read because the association of these words to the range object is implicit rather than immediately obvious.
* It conflicts with other uses of [=start=] and [=end=], such as the (much more common) usage of CSS's "start" and "end" directions, which then always need to specify `[=CSS/start=]`. (There are other definitions of plain "start"/"end" in Bikeshed's db also, but none of them are exported so they don't interfere.)

Would you mind renaming to "range start" and "range end"? This would also simplify your markup a bit - right now every usage of the terms is written as `<a for=range>start</a>`; after this fix they'd be `[=range start=]`. This PR does so, and I believe is an editorial improvement.
You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

  https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1168

-- Commit Summary --

  * Rename Range's 'start' and 'end' to 'range start' and 'range end'.

-- File Changes --

    M dom.bs (115)

-- Patch Links --

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1168.patch
https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1168.diff

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