So, what exactly to do about text-shadow for MSIE?

[travelvice]

Howdy – I’m slogging through far too many opinions on support for IE and text-shadow.

I’ve got this little fellow in the stylesheet: text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #F2F2F2;
Is there a practical method to get this in IE as well?

Cheers,

[travelvice]

Howdy Eric – I’ve seen, but box-shadow ≠ text-shadow, and it’s only for IE6-8
:(

[TT_Mark]

Websites don’t have to look the same in every browser, however I have found JavaScript fixes for both rounded corners and box shadows so I would guess you can find one for text shadow

[DogsGhost]

If it wasn’t a lot of text I used to have a fallback image that would only load for IE, but then I joined Mark’s view point that browser rendering doesn’t have to look identical and decided IE users not seeing text shadow wasn’t the end of the world in most cases.

[travelvice]

Oh, I totally agree. And that’s why up until now I’ve left it be. But as I’m polishing up the final stylesheet, I had left myself a comment in there to see if there was a solution for IE with filters or the such.

[TheLeggett]

Would offsetting the same text as a separate color behind the original text work? Not sure if there’s anyway to blur that text without the glow/dropshadow IE filters… which don’t function quite as nicely as the “text-shadow” property (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/textshadow.html).

[travelvice]

I’m actually wondering if it’ll be jQuery to the rescue again: http://www.hintzmann.dk/testcenter/js/jquery/textshadow/

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