A fix for text rendering in Safari 4 under Snow Leopard.

Well, it looks like Apple once again “fixed” something about the text rendering under Safari 4 in Snow Leopard.

To be honest, I personally believe what they did was proper. They disabled a hack that could seriously screw up text rendering if, in the future, they finally get around to fixing the way that text renders in Safari (c’mon Apple, just make it pretty already).

So, here’s what I believe to be a more reliable hack to fix it. Bear in mind, however, that this is still a hack… if  they ever fix text rendering, this will make your text heinously ugly. Also, you need to use whatever your background color is… there’s no panacea now as far as I can tell.

-webkit-text-stroke: 1px rgba(0,0,0,.01);

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