Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Consider always serializing the angle for `font-style: oblique` (#8291)

`oblique` dates back to (at least) CSS 2.1, and AFAIK did not originally say anything about the angle, only that it should select a face labelled as being oblique. [CSS Fonts 3](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-style-prop) also didn't specify an angle.

I don't think old sites or browsers tended to assume anything specific about the angle of slant.

(In gecko, at least, I don't recall ever having a 20° slant, although it may at one time have been somewhat platform-dependent rather than being explicitly managed.)

What I'm uncomfortable about here is that we'd be changing the serialization of `font-style: oblique`, a value which has existed "forever", to a new form of serialization that existing code may stumble over.

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