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Originally Posted by AlanHK
If their font was properly kerned, what they'd see would be identical in either case.
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Only if your hardcoded spacing happens to match the kerning for the particular font, and only if the renderer doesn't add the kerning to the spacing (I'm not sure if there's any spec on how HTML/CSS elements should affect kerning). And this at the cost of possibly breaking searching, cluttering the code and maybe triggering other bugs (I think ADE will consider both sides of the <span> as valid hyphenation points).
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And the 999 out of 1000 readers who don't have such a setup will get a layout without merged quotemarks.
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998 of them couldn't care less, just as they don't care about straight/curly quotes, punctuation inconsistently inside/outside italics, poor justification, ligatures, etc.
But don't misunderstand me, I don't mean the HTML/CSS way is wrong, only that it's not perfect and you should consider the cons as well as the pros to make your decision. And of course, as long as your decision is different from mine, I may try to convince you
