title: IE9 text shadow - filter: glow, chroma and shadow
body: <p>I'm trying to place shadow behind text in IE9. Because IE sucks I already used filter glow to accomplish the effect in IE7 and 8. </p>
  
  <p>I did some research and found out that IE9 doesn't support filter glow anymore and also does not support CSS3 property text-shadow (WHY MS? WHY?!).</p>
  
  <p>So I played around with the ms filter's shadow and dropshadow but that doesnt fix anything. Also everything I tried lead to the black background color (see screenshot).</p>
  
  <p>CSS I'm using</p>
  
  <pre><code> text-shadow: 0 0 0.6em #000, 0 0 0.6em #000;
   filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.glow(color=#606060,strength=2);
   background-color:transparent;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and a rendering screenshot</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/B2GiD.png" alt=""></p>
  
  <p>Note: The css above is being applied to an div containing text.</p>
  
  <p>The solution I'm looking for preferably is css-only but if js is necessary, than thats the way it is.</p>
  
  <p>ps. I have to mention this, I cant stop thinking about some IE9 announcement poster saying "Sorry developers, but we will make it up to you", I falsely hoped IE would stop raping my time.</p>