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[cssom] getComputedStyle() needs to do CSS/parse on its "pseudo" argument #3875

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Currently CSSOM says:

If it is an ASCII case-insensitive match for a pseudo-element that the UA supports, other than ::slotted(), let obj be the given pseudo-element of elt.

This isn't a well-founded operation; there's no way to match a string against a pseudo-element. You need to do a [=CSS/parse=] of the string (clarifying that CSS syntax in general is supported; otherwise you have to define bespoke parsing) as a <<pseudo-element-selector>>, and then have it represent the corresponding pseudo-element that would match that selector on the element.

See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/#window-interface for an example of similar text.

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