This is such a common pattern for me these days that I generalized it to a mixin. Since I know I'm not the only one who uses this, I'm wondering, should this go upstream into Compass?
I think it's OK, but it could be improved upon. I wrote it for a site using stable, not --pre, so it would be using single-box-shadow on --pre, I think.
Brandon, do you have a similar mixin in your toolbelt? I see this all over the place on the beta compass site.
Thoughts?
-Lorin