Please see http://jsfiddle.net/CVwXV/2/ if you are on a Mac.
When you look at Chrome or Safari (webkit) on mac, the text jumps to a much lighter shade / color.
On firefox on mac this is great.
If you delete the second ARTICLE in html from the YouTube video and run it again, it will perfectly display in webkit.
Any ideas? This, of course, is not just my car doing it.
Thank.
EDIT: Something seems to be related to smoothing. http://jsfiddle.net/CVwXV/3/
If I do this.
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important;
font-smoothing: antialiased !important;
Then there is no transition ... but it still looks LOT different between firefox and chrome. FF on the left, Chrome on the right.

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