There is an initial patch to support text shadows in the Qt port (Bug #18459), but that doesn't yet support blur. There is a commented-out function GraphicsContext::drawTextShadow() in the source that seems to have a blur implementation. We should try to port this to the new text-shadow implementation.
hm, I tried to port the old implementation and performance seemed incredibly bad. I may have done something wrong, but my first impression is that it will be difficult to add blur support with decent performance. I may come back to this later, but I'm moving on to other things for the moment. If anybody else is interested in adding blur, feel free to grab this bug.
I can imagine that the performance is related to the FIXME's in the old code, which allocates a QImage with the size of the entire viewport.
Add and assign to myself.
See also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34479
Created attachment 65169 [details] Screenshot of the result of applying the patch I have a patch ready, the attached screenshot shows the result of the blur shadow.
Created attachment 65170 [details] Patch
Comment on attachment 65170 [details] Patch Isn't there some way to factor some of this into online methods?
> Isn't there some way to factor some of this into online methods? It is not trivial since one works with QPainter::drawText while the other uses QTextLayout/QTextLine. It is unfortunate that the boilerplate for the prolog and epilog are similar, but I can't see a clean way to refactor them, without falling back to C-ism macro magic.
Committed r65876: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/65876>
There must be a very good reason to include any more bugs as blockers for the qtwebkit-2.1 release at this point. Since I don't see one, I'm removing it from the blocking list. :-) Feel free to add it as a *candidate* for inclusion (bug #44677) and please state the motivation/reason/requirement for it.