Text-Shadow in IE - html

Question

I found a Stackoverflow article on creating text shadows in IE: StackQuestion
Now I tried all of the 'filter' solutions in there, and in IE9, the text renders horrible(although the shadow shadow shows, the text pixelates heavily...).
Does anyone know of a proper text-shadow technique for IE? Even if it is just for IE9...
Thank You

Answer 1

Check this site out: http://css3pie.com/
It's a plugin that enables you to use CSS3 in IE6-9

Answer 2

You can get text-shadow effects in Internet Explorer, taming IE's crunky filter shadow effects, forcing them to look okay and stop pixelating the text. Use the IE Chroma filter:
Set a background colour that is close to, but not the same as, your shadow colour - e.g. for black shadows, a dark grey, for white glows, a light grey
(set the background colour in a stylesheet or style rule inside an IE-only class or conditional comment, to not wreck your design in every other browser!)
Precede your IE filter CSS rule with a Chroma filter set to the same colour as the background fill
It looks (almost) quite good!
jsfiddle examples (load in IE8, IE9)
...or if you don't have easy access to IE8/9, here's a screenshot from that fiddle in IE9 IE8 mode. Notice the difference between the horrible, artifact-ridden, pixelated mess that is IE's default filter, against the quite crisp, normal-looking Chroma filter equivalents.
CSS code examples. Note how you've got a Chroma filter then another filter, all on one line, in quotes against one -ms-filter - and how the Chroma colour matches the background colour precisely, and how the Chroma colour compliments (but doesn't match) the main effect colour:
.chroma-glow {
background-color: #dfdfdf;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma(Color=#dfdfdf)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Glow(color=ffffff,strength=4)";
}
.chroma-shadow {
background-color: #dfdfdf;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma(Color=#dfdfdf)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(direction=135,strength=2,color=ffffff)";
}
Some requirements (learned the hard way...)
Elements must be block or inline-block, can't be inline.
Filters fail to apply to any children that are position: relative; or position: absolute;
(they work if applied directly to position: absolute; or `position: relative; elements)
If you're adding the filters dynamically, e.g. with jQuery like $elem.css('filter','progid...');, it seems like the background colour must be applied directly to the element with the filter for the chroma to work. A couple of tips:
Have the effect colour, applied background colour, and chroma colour all identical
Since you'll want this background colour only in IE, use feature detection or IE detection.

Answer 3

#element {
filter: glow(color=black,strength=5);
}