639346 - The text-shadow CSS3 property is not implemented the same as Chrome

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Myles Gray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13
Build Identifier: 4.0b12

The text-shadow property should render the shadow INSIDE the text rather than outside the text, see the above link (the h1) for a demo of this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach text-shadow property to any font-face
2. View in Chrome and Firefox
Actual Results:  
On Chrome the shadow is rendered INSIDE the text where as Firefox renders it outside the text, Chromes implementation in my opinion looks better.

Expected Results:  
Rendered the shadow within the text chars.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Shadows are supposed to be outside the text.

(Could you attach screenshots showing the difference?)

Comment 2

[Myles Gray]

Hi David,

See here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5212003/fonts-always-thicker-in-firefox-than-chrome-regardless-of-font-family

Comment 3

[Myles Gray]

Attachment: Screenshot in Chrome

Comment 4

[Myles Gray]

Attachment: Screenshot in Firefox

Comment 5

[Myles Gray]

David,
Upon your comment (should be rendered outside text) yes it is more logical and thus I have submitted a bug on Chrome's bugzilla here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=75102

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It looks more like Firefox is getting a bolder font than Chrome is.

Comment 7

[Myles Gray]

David, It isn't that I removed text-shadow on both, Firefox stayed as it was (without the faint black shadow though) and Chrome got bolder, leading to the conclusion that Chrome has an inner shadow rather than outer...

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

ok, that's pretty bizarre then.  Sounds like a Chrome bug.

Comment 9

[Myles Gray]

Filed a bug with Chrome see above