Good web typography

It looks good to my untrained eyes.

 

Looks fine to me

 

You're pretty much at the mercy of the browser, and on top of that each browser/OS combination has its own slight differences interpreting exactly the same HTML and CSS. And I agree, Web browsers are generally terrible about the spacing they employ.

If someone happens to look at your page with smoothing turned off, all your tuning goes to waste anyway. And if I'm on an I-hate-Verdana kick this week and disable it, there ain't nothin' you can do about it. It's better to assume that you have no real control at all over how the text will be displayed, because that's the reality.

 

Ditto that. Web Design is about working around constraints and fine-tuning text kerning and tracking and such is a big one. Basically, I get a font that works, and set the size and the line-spacing and go with it. There is no point in getting more anal than that since there is a 98% that is will still look like crap in IE and over 80% of the world uses that crap-fest of a browser.

 

to my trained eye, the leading could be larger, and the "ideal" length for a measure of type is about 66 characters (including spaces), you are at around 88. by shortening the measure, the type will read better than it does now.

but i concur; keeping it consistent once it gets on the web and different platforms and browsers look at it is tough at best.

 

Just leave it normal while only adjusting line height. If you must kern then only do it to large type for titles (which you might as well just use an image anyways unless youre trying to show CSS skills). Using that for large amounts of text is not a good idea at all for the web, browsers dont like it and you can get some really weird side effects if you make it too big. A lot of people like to highlight text as they read, kerning can really make that weird.

I promise nobody will judge you for your kerning in a webpage unless its messing up in their browser. Just leave it default.