It's cool but when I loaded the page it took 5 or 6 seconds to load the shadows on the title and example text.

Thanks for the link, I had just seen this idea used on rottentomatoes.com but they did it by writing each word twice and adjusting the padding and z-index on the 'shadow' layer. Your way seems easier to implement.

Speaking of drop shadows, I just came across this method for styling boxes/images with shadows from 456 Berea Street.

Thanks 4hero

the shadows actually ARE done using css... the trick is that the original source doesn't have repeated content.
All the script does is take the content, toss it into a couple spans, give one a class "shadow", and insert them back into the element. The css handles the presentation after that. The idea is to NOT have duplicated content in the source.

Here's a link to the css portion:

http://www.scottjehl.com/jsDropShadows/css/dropShadows.css

basically, an element that looks like this in the source:

<h2 class="highContrast">Here's an example</h2>

Becomes this after the script passes through:

<h2 class="highContrast">
	<span class="shadow">Here's an example</span>
	<span>Here's an example</span>
</h2>

If you view the generated source, you can see what I mean.

lemme know if you have any more questions, thanks for the feedback!

Hey dmitryseliv
Thanks for the comment.
The idea of the technique is to produce a visual effect while allowing the markup to remain semantic and readable. It's basically a temporary solution for emulating a CSS3 drop shadow until CSS3's browser support gets better.
If the technique required you to write duplicated markup for an effect, it would be impractical in real-world use.

The class name idea that was previously recommended is actually what the script creates already.
The beauty of it is that if you want the effect, just attach a js file and put a class on any element that needs a drop shadow.
No need to change your markup at all. I'm definitely not claiming it looks beautiful, although I think it works well on large headings (not so much on body copy, heh). But a drop shadow serves a functional purpose in many design situations so it could come in handy when you need to use it.
-S