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Zach Nelson b5b1f650e2 perf: Minimize string allocations in CSS parsing (#2263)
## Summary

Use `std::string_view` and case-insensitive comparisons to avoid string
allocations during CSS parsing.

**Hot path:** `resolveStyle` (called per HTML start tag during chapter
rendering) now does zero heap allocations. Previously it allocated a
normalized tag string, a vector of class strings, and a composite key
per class. For a chapter with ~2000 tags × 2 classes each, that's ~12
000 small short-lived allocations eliminated per page render — primarily
a heap-fragmentation win on the ESP32-C3's ~380KB RAM.

**Cold path:** CSS load no longer allocates per-rule selector vectors or
per-token strings; `splitOnChar`/`splitWhitespace` are gone, replaced
with callback-based tokenization (`forEachDelimitedToken`).

**Behavioral notes:**
- The selector `unordered_map` now uses an ASCII-case-insensitive
hash/equal. Selectors are stored with their original case rather than
pre-lowercased; the observable lookup result is unchanged.
- `stripTrailingImportant` is now case-insensitive (per CSS spec;
previously matched only lowercase `!important`).

**Cache compatibility:** `CSS_CACHE_VERSION` unchanged. Old caches
(lowercase selectors) load correctly under the new lookup; new caches
will contain verbatim-case selectors — both forms work.

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