[audionerd]

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...

[fadeyev]

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.