[joshnh]

Absolutely, you can hack it on a very individual basis, but this introduces some major problems. For instance, browsers and operating systems all render fonts differently, and as the web is fluid by nature, simply having a sentence break to the next line can be an issue. Also, it can be incredibly different based on the typefaces you are using.

[exceptione]

then i still don't get it. When a simple line break would break a horizontal baseline-aligned grid, wouldn't it break a horizontal baseline-plus-some-space-aligned grid?

Although the css prop. "line-heigt" is not implemented in a convenient way, it is still deterministic as I understand from the quoted article:

"This is determ­ined by work­ing out the dif­fer­ence between the line-height and the font-size, divid­ing by 2, and then pla­cing the cal­cu­lated amount of space above and below each line of text."

[joshnh]

Only if you are using line-height to hack together a print baseline on the web.

Let me put it this way, if there was a semi-reasonable solution, I'm sure you would have heard about it.