Google Chrome text shadow blur bug

Question

Google Chrome has an extremely annoying defect in the blur algorithm it uses for text shadow (possibly other shadows too). As a result, the shadow "eats" into the letters and makes the text look strange and difficult to read.

One of the places you can see this clearly is on Twitter - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth. The text-shadow is used for text outline there: view the page in Chrome, compare with FF or IE, you will see how bad it is.

The effect gets even worse with smaller text and it renders it completely unreadable. Technical discussion of the issue is available here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?fid=5d1c0f2082af0f21000483e9a516d36e&hl=en

My question has two goals:

1. Find some technical workaround for this bug
2. Make Google fix it.

Answer 1

You will find that the second is no easier than the first. There is a bug submitted in the Chromium project (issue 23440). This bug has been around more than a year and is still not assigned to anybody. Google devs saw it, decided it is not so important and left it to age. It turns out they only fix the "popular" bugs, a practice so lame that it looks impressive! The king of stupid! At least they do not apply that to security :) I am very disappointed with Chrome, but either way it grows more popular every day. So a public effort is needed to get this one fixed.

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