Created attachment 64685 [details] Test for repaint issues The first point is, that -webkit-svg-shadow together with CSS Transitions does not result in a smooth animation (maybe because of a missing entry in AnimationBase.cpp? see bug 21586). Transisitions of -webkit-svg-shadow as well as text-shadow cause repaint issues. See attached example. The shadow doesn't get cleared correctly on moving the mouse over the text and back.
Created attachment 64687 [details] Test with text-shadow
The problem with the first example may just not occur in Safari, caused by a different handling of shadows in CG.
I am not able to reproduce issue of repaint by causing mouse hover on 'Test with text-shadow' in Safari 16.5 and it is same as "Chrome Canary 115", I think we can close this old bug now. Marking this as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED", please reopen if it is reproducible.