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Chrome doesn't shape text (ignoring kerning) if it contains entirely Latin text, as a questionable performance optimization that really reduces legibility of text (IMO). You can use "text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" to force it to obey kerning.

These were taken in IE on Windows. The italic version seems far worse than the normal version, but they're all a bit wonky IMO.

http://imgur.com/a/i5KjF

Are you sure it's ignoring them? mansr said the kerning table is incomplete. Could it be that you were just lucky on everything you tested on?

Looks completely off in Chrome on Linux, too.

Chrome seems to ignore all kerning on all platforms. Firefox does a much better job.

Looks a bit off in Safari 7 too.