There's a difference between "implemented" and "working". Here's an example of the combination of PNG Transparence (in since version 1) and ShadowBlur (in for

There's a difference between "implemented" and "working". Here's an example of the combination of PNG Transparence (in since version 1) and ShadowBlur (in for quite some time), both of which work on their own, but not in combination: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100703 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100703 There are still lots of issues like this one, with limitless combinations of feature1, feature2, browser vendor to choose from that make working with vector graphics on the web several orders of magnitude more painful than simply throwing a .png up there and calling it done.