How to exactly replicate webpage fonts in Photoshop? Can it be done?

Hi all, I've just come across something in photoshop that I must have never have picked up on before.
I am trying to simply replicate a peice of text in photoshop so that it is pixel by pixel exactly the same as what I would see in a webbrowser with some text from a css/html based webpage.
I used to think creating the text in the same font size and turning the antialiasing method to none reproduced the same text by to my amazement there is
a slight difference.
As you can see in the text below the text displayed in the css/html webpage does not look as pixelly as the photoshop version.
The grey box is from the actual webpage itself, the text next to Webpage text is screen grabbed from a basic css/html webpage, the Photoshop text what created with the type tool (anti aliasing none)
Just wondering if anyone can explain what is going on here and is there a way to exactly replicate web fonts in photoshop?
Any help would be great

I am trying to simply replicate a peice of text in photoshop so that it is pixel by pixel exactly the same as what I would see in a webbrowser with some text from a css/html based webpage.
Sorry, you can't (without copying text from a browser).
Part of the problem is that every browser renders text differently.
And part of it is that many browsers currently render with an anti-aliasing style that Photoshop doesn't support (color edges).
Then there's the lack of kerning in browsers and ....
We've been thinking about how to replicate browser font rendering, but it's not nearly as easy as it sounds.

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