cappuccino/cappuccino — Issue #1412: Internet Explorer renders text shadows with [CPColor clearColor] in black
Author: aljungberg
Created: 2011-12-06 22:27:17+00:00
State: open

Since IE8 does not support `rgba` CSS colour specifications, we use the `rgb` fallback which is simply black. We might not be able to handle general opacity but we can simulate 0% opacity by simply not rendering the shadow.

This will also improve performance slightly in every browser n case people are using `clearColor` to toggle a shadow off. Not drawing the extra text span saves some time.