When 'border-color' is unspecified, its value is the computed value of 'color', but when animating to that state, the value animates to 'transparent' instead. See the attached test case.
(The same happens when animating *from* an unspecified border-color).
Created attachment 18730 [details] Test case The border should animated from red to blue and back to red, but never be transparent.
The reason for this bug is that the "copy from the 'color' property" rule is implemented as a paint-time hack (strangely it is replaced with "set to light gray" if the border style is one of the "3D" styles; Firefox does not do that).
Created attachment 18946 [details] Fix
Comment on attachment 18946 [details] Fix r=me
Fixed in <http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/30039>.