Re: [whatwg/dom] Consider adding a timeout parameter to the AbortController constructor (Issue #1110)

I think @bathos' comment is addressed with the addition of `AbortSignal.any()`. Perhaps we need more compositional methods, but those would be best tracked in their own issue.

@adixon-adobe `AbortSignal` doesn't have a `timeout()` instance method though. It has a static method that vends an `AbortSignal()`. That's quite different. Is it the presentation on MDN that makes this confusing?

I guess there's a question of whether there's room for a static that does something like the following
```js
function controllerWithTimeout(timeout) {
  const controller = new AbortController();
  const timeoutSignal = AbortSignal.timeout(timeout);
  const signal = AbortSignal.any([controller.signal, timeoutSignal]);
  return { controller, signal };
}
```
and is perhaps a bit cleaner/magical (by flattening `signal` into `controller`), but I tend to agree with @domenic that there needs to be more evidence of need before we go there.

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