CSS- webkit-text-stroke but stroke covers font-color

Question

Please take a look at here using Chrome : http://jsfiddle.net/u8BdB/

Why the webkit-text-stroke is covering also the font color?

I would like to put

Answer 1

This is because the font is relatively small comparing to the 1px stroke.

You can try smaller px value, like 0.3px

Fiddle

Also you can simulate this with text-shadow:

Fiddle