This is bad advice and against the recommendation of Chrome engineers amongst others. The short version: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/

This is bad advice and against the recommendation of Chrome engineers amongst others. The short version: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0014.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0014.h... The long version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304 In addition: text rendering is very specific to the combination of browser & rendering layer. Targeting Mac Chrome with a webkit-wide property is a good way to get inconsistent results across your various desktop webkits and mobile webkits.