Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-inline] Why not just alias deprecated system colors at parse time? (#13459)

Also, from [Appendix A: Deprecated CSS System Colors](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#deprecated-system-colors)

> User agents must support these keywords, and to mitigate fingerprinting must map them to the (undeprecated) [system colors](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#css-system-colors) as listed below. Authors must not use these keywords.

[WPT results](https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-color?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=deprecated) show that Chrome/Edge and Mozilla mostly do this, while Safari (strangely, for a fingerprinting vector) mostly does not. Also Chrome does not do this with `ActiveCaption` ([CR bug](https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40823530#comment18)).

"map them" is loose spec text; presumably the computed value is the one it should map to?

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