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by fadeyev 5779 days ago
Yes, but the whole point of subpixel rendering is aesthetics. Its job is to make fonts look smoother and crisper, and in majority of cases it does just that. I'll accept that OS X's rendering of bold fonts on dark backgrounds is terrible, which is where the text-shadow trick comes in handy (or antialiasing, which I think is the same thing in that case), but I'm not sure that for body fonts this is the right way to go. I see this technique popping up here and there and in many cases the fonts end up looking worse. Sure, it's up to the designer to decide what's best--it always is--which is why it's good to have this discussion so that people can better understand which choices to make.
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The text-shadow hack stopped working when Snow Leopard was released.

-webkit-font-smoothing seems to be a specific solution to the same problem.

via: http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/resources/html-css/thinni...

It hasn't stopped working, it just behaves differently. It stopped working on shadow blur amount of 0, but it works at 1px or more.